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Biography

Name: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.
Birth Date: March 2, 1931
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: journalist, novelist

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Biography of Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.
949 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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Biography of Tom Wolfe
5,254 words, approx. 18 pages
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...
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Biography of Tom Wolfe
4,578 words, approx. 15 pages
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...


Quotations
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Tom Wolfe Quotes
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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe (born March 2 , 1930 in Richmond ), 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 1970s. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Kandy-Kolored...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Wolfe, Tom (1931—) Summary
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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...
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Tom Wolfe Information
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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...


News and Journals
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The Economist (US)
Not quite Savonarola. (Tom Wolfe)
09/17/1988: 574 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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The Village Voice
Has Tom Wolfe Blown It?
01/10/2007: 3,857 words, approx. 13 pages
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...
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AP News
Tom Wolfe has new book, new publisher
1/2/2008: 437 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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The New York Observer
Tom Wolfe On His New Book and His Decision to Leave FSG
1/2/2008: 558 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Sheri F. Crawford
9,220 words, approx. 31 pages
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.
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Interview by Tom Wolfe with George Plimpton
8,374 words, approx. 28 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Gary Konas
6,784 words, approx. 23 pages
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.
 


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