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Tom Wolfe


USA flag (1931 - 2018)

Tom Wolfe was born in 1931. He wrote for The Washington Post and The New York Herald Tribune and is credited with the creation of 'New Journalism'. Between 1984 and 1985 Wolfe wrote his first novel The Bonfire of the Vanities in serial form for Rolling Stone magazine. The novel was published in 1987. It was number one of the New York Times bestseller list for two months and remained on the list for more than a year. He is the author of sixteen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and I Am Charlotte Simmons.
 


Genres: General Fiction
 
Novels
   The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
   A Man in Full (1998)
   I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
   Back to Blood (2012)
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Collections
   Hooking Up (2000)
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Award nominations
1998 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : A Man in Full
1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : The Bonfire of the Vanities


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Fields of Fire (1978)
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"In my opinion the finest of the vietnam novels."

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