biography
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Wolfe, Tom
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popular name of Thomas Kennerly Wolfe
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| (1931– )
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| Writer and artist, born in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He received his doctorate in American Studies from Yale University (1957), and began a career as a reporter for the Springfield Union (1956–9), the Washington Post (1959–62), and the New York Herald Tribune (1962–6). The originator of such phrases as radical chic and the me decade, his ‘new journalism’ essays were collected under such titles as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965). His other non-fiction titles include The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), The Right Stuff (1979), and From Bauhaus to Our House (1981). An artist, he had two one-man shows in New York City (1965, 1974) and published a collection of his drawings titled In Our Time (1980). His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987, and among later novels is A Man in Full (1998). Cultivating his ‘dandy’ image with such affectations as his trademark white suit and arch mannner, he seemed genuinely committed to his conservative stance against a generally liberal New York intellectual world. |
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