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    Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.Much of Wolfe's work was satirical and centred on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the ...

  2. Tom Wolfe (born March 2, 1930, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.—died May 14, 2018, New York, New York) was an American novelist, journalist, and social commentator who was a leading critic of contemporary life and a proponent of New Journalism (the application of fiction-writing techniques to journalism).. After studying at Washington and Lee University (B.A., 1951), Wolfe, a talented baseball ...

  3. May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, who died Tuesday in New York at the age of 87, leaves behind him an impressive legacy of work: essays, criticism, longform reporting, and fiction. Here are five essential books you ...

  4. May 15, 2018 · T he novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe, who died on Monday at age 88, will be remembered for his impact on the development of the New Journalism, his inimitable — though oft-imitated — writing ...

  5. May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe in 1968 in Manhattan. He was known for his verbal pyrotechnics in books like “The Right Stuff,” not to mention his sartorial flair.

  6. May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, who died Monday, was—as even those of us who did not share his politics and often deplored his taste and even doubted the fashion wisdom of all the white suits have to admit—one of ...

  7. NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New Journalism" who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," has died.

  8. May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, Best-Selling Author And Genre-Breaking Journalist, Dies At 88 The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff used to give himself a quota of 10 triple-spaced pages per ...

  9. May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, who died yesterday, was a master of a delirious, rococo prose style, an elaborately, self-created, virtuoso journalist and author with a rarely-paralleled instinct for storytelling, who ...

  10. May 15, 2018 · RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tom Wolfe created unforgettable stories about test pilots and hippies, bikers and the lost denizens of Wall Street. He wrote best sellers like "The Right Stuff" and "Bonfire ...

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