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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia on March 2, 1930. He received bachelor's degree in English from Washington and Lee University in 1951 and a Ph.D in American studies from Yale University in 1957. He started his journalism career as a general-assignment reporter at The mostra altro Springfield Union. While he was working for The Washington Post, he was assigned to cover Latin America and won the Washington Newspaper Guild's foreign news prize for a series on Cuba in 1961. In 1962, he became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune and a staff writer for New York magazine. His work also appeared in Harper's and Esquire. His first book, a collection of articles about the flamboyant Sixties written for New York and Esquire entitled The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, was published in 1968. His other collections included Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and Hooking Up. His non-fiction works included The Pump House Gang; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Painted Word; Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine; In Our Time; and From Bauhaus to Our House. The Right Stuff won the American Book Award for nonfiction, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Harold Vursell Award for prose style, and the Columbia Journalism Award. It was adapted into a film in 1983. His fiction books included The Bonfire of the Vanities, Ambush at Fort Bragg, A Man in Full, The Kingdom of Speech, I Am Charlotte Simmons, and Back to Blood. He was also a contributing artist at Harper's from 1978 to 1981. Many of his illustrations were collected in In Our Time. He died on May 14, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

Opere di Tom Wolfe

Il falò delle vanità (1987) 8,799 copie
La stoffa giusta (1979) 4,561 copie
A man in full (1998) 4,462 copie
Io sono Charlotte Simmons (2004) 3,835 copie
La bestia umana (2000) 1,026 copie
Back to Blood (2012) 943 copie
The Painted Word (1975) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni919 copie
The Pump House Gang (1968) 499 copie
The New Journalism (1973) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 331 copie
Gente bene e tutti gli altri (1976) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni331 copie
The Kingdom of Speech (2016) 279 copie
The Purple Decades (1982) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni267 copie
Ambush at Fort Bragg (1997) 147 copie
In Our Time (1980) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni120 copie
Frederick Hart: Sculptor (1995) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Où est votre stylo ? (2016) 9 copie
Mid-Atlantic Man (1969) 3 copie
Wolfe Tom 2 copie
Underneath the I-Beams (1981) 1 copia
BLOODY MIAMI 1 copia

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The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Collaboratore — 759 copie
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson (2007) — Collaboratore — 589 copie
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969, Volume 1 (1998) — Collaboratore — 318 copie
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (1997) — Collaboratore — 294 copie
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Collaboratore — 287 copie
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Collaboratore — 274 copie
Three Novels : Mildred Pierce; Double Indemnity; The Postman Always Rings Twice; (1934) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni207 copie
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Collaboratore — 201 copie
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999) — Collaboratore — 188 copie
Photographs (1983) — Introduzione — 177 copie
The Best American Essays 1990 (1990) — Collaboratore — 117 copie
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Collaboratore — 110 copie
The Best American Essays 1987 (1987) — Collaboratore — 84 copie
Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington (1988) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni76 copie
Malaparte: A House Like Me (1999) — Prefazione — 50 copie
The Best American Magazine Writing 2000 (2000) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Color Photographs (1976) 17 copie
I'm a Little Special (1999) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Sky High: Stories of Survival from Air to Space (2002) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
À la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion (1973) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni8 copie
The New York Spy A Most Personal Guide to the Empire City (1967) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Bill Cunningham New York [2010 film] (2011) — Actor — 8 copie
Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel (2002) — Collaboratore — 6 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Wolfe, Tom
Nome legale
Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly, Jr.
Data di nascita
1930-03-02
Data di morte
2018-05-14
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Richmond, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
Luogo di morte
New York, New York, USA
Causa della morte
antibiotic-resistant infection
Luogo di residenza
Richmond, Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Istruzione
St. Christopher's School
Washington and Lee University (BA|English|1951)
Yale University (PhD|American Studies|1957)
Attività lavorative
writer
journalist
Organizzazioni
Springfield Union
The Washington Post
New York Herald Tribune
Esquire
New Journalism
Rolling Stone (mostra tutto 7)
Harper's Magazine
Premi e riconoscimenti
Jefferson Lecture (2006)
Washington Newspaper Guild Award ( [1961])
Society of Magazine Writers Award for Excellence (1970)
National Humanities Medal (2001)
Frank Luther Mott Research Award (1973)
John Dos Passos Award (1984) (mostra tutto 16)
Virginia Laureate for Literature (1977)
Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Institute of Arts and Letters (1980)
Art History Citation (National Sculpture Society ∙ 1980)
Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence (1986)
St. Louis Literary Award (1990)
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2010)
Gari Melchers Medal (1986)
Benjamin Pierce Cheney Medal (Eastern Washington University ∙ 1986)
Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2003)
Golden Plate Award (American Academy of Achievement, 2005)
Agente
Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)

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Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe in Someone explain it to me... (Marzo 2021)

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Statistiche

Opere
41
Opere correlate
35
Utenti
36,204
Popolarità
#512
Voto
3.8
Recensioni
530
ISBN
662
Lingue
21
Preferito da
98
Citazioni
593

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