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   Is Tom Wolfe still alive?

   • Tom Wolfe (born March 2, 1930, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.—died May 14, 2018, New York, New York) 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 ).

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   Did Tom Wolfe write a novel?

   • In 1977, PBS produced Tom Wolfe's Los Angeles, a fictional, satirical TV movie set in Los Angeles. Wolfe appears in the movie as himself. Throughout his early career, Wolfe had planned to write a novel to capture the wide reach of American society.

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   What happened to Tom Wolfe?

   • In a career that spanned more than half a century, Tom Wolfe wrote fiction and nonfiction best-sellers including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Along the way, he created a new type of journalism and coined phrases that became part of the American lexicon. Wolfe died Monday in Manhattan. He was 88.

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   What did Adam Gopnik write about Tom Wolfe?

   • Adam Gopnik writes on Tom Wolfe, who died Monday, and the influence of books such as “Bonfire of the Vanities,” “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” and ”The Right Stuff.”

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   Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) [a] 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.

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   • Literary movement: New Journalism

   • Period: 1959–2016

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   Apr 23, 2024 · 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 ).

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   May 15, 2018 · Famed American author Tom Wolfe -- who chronicled American power and greed in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and its reach for the stars in "The Right Stuff" -- died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 88. Wolfe's longtime agent Lynn Nesbit confirmed the writer's death to ABC News.

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   May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan’s...

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   May 15, 2018 · May 15, 201811:35 AM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. By. Tom Vitale. 5-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. Novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe believed that techniques for fiction...

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9. www.newyorker.com › culture › postscriptRemembering Tom Wolfe, One of the Central Makers of Modern ...

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   May 15, 2018 · By Adam Gopnik. May 15, 2018. The writer Tom Wolfe, whose love for the bright caricatural gesture helped define American letters in the last half of the twentieth century, died on Monday....

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    Dec 30, 2018 · 1930-2018. By KEVIN BAKER. December 30, 2018. Kevin Baker is author, most recently, of America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World. No other...