American journalist and novelist Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. (born 1931), was a major figure in the "New Journalism" which began in the 1960s. Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 2, 1931, the son of Thomas Kennerly and...

Tom Wolfe might be called the literary son of Mark Twain. Famous for his white suits and his high-speed, highly exclamatory, highly italicized delivery, Wolfe is one of America's leading prose stylists and satirists, although he demurs at the latter...

The foremost theorist and best-known practitioner of New Journalism, Tom Wolfe has become almost synonymous with the journalistic movement he helped foster in the mid 1960s. Critics praise or reject nearly every component of Wolfe's work including his...

Since the 1960s, American journalist Tom Wolfe has been one of the chief chroniclers of the times. Known for analyzing trends and exposing inherent cultural absurdities, Wolfe has coined terminology such as "radical chic" and "the...

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe (born March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia), known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and...

TOM WOLFE'S week in Paris to promote his latest book, "Le Bucher des Vanites", has been a great success. He has been hailed as "the Balzac of New York" and feted as the direct descendant of Flaubert and Zola. The Zola allusion he...

In his recent broadside against the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the author takes on the architecture establishment yet again. But this time, Felix Gillette suspects, it's his fame Wolfe wants to preserve. Friday, Decembers, 2006,12:45:28 p.m. To: felixgillette@yahoo.com From: tomwolfe@zeitgeist.com* How...

Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown and Co."The opportunity to work with the American master Tom Wolfe is the kind of...

As reported earlier, Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel set in Miami called Back to Blood, which will be published in 2009 by Little, Brown. According to a press release, the book would deal with "class, family, wealth, race, crime, sex, corruption, and...

In the following essay, Crawford analyzes how Wolfe's protagonists often exhibit the characteristics of an “outlaw gentleman,” a rogue who clothes himself in respectability.

In the following interview by Plimpton, Wolfe discusses how he became a journalist, the influences and inspirations behind his various works, why he chose to write novels, and his work habits as a professional writer.

In this essay, Konas analyzes the mythic, rebellious heroes of subculture that Wolfe focuses on in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and The Right Stuff.