Wolfe, Tom
Wolfe, Tom ( 1931 – ),American novelist and journalist; born Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr in Richmond, Virginia, he began his career as a journalist reporting for the Washington Post ( 1959 – 62 ). With his contemporaries Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson he was a pioneer of New Journalism (he co-edited the anthology The New Journalism in 1973 ), bringing to journalism techniques of writing usually employed by fiction writers. He published a number of volumes of non-fiction in the 1960s and 1970s (much of which had first appeared in periodicals such as Rolling Stone magazine), including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ( 1968 ) and The Right Stuff ( 1979 ), about the early stages of the American space programme. His other works of non-fiction include From Bauhaus to Our House ( 1981 ), a succinct overview of 20th-cent. architecture.
He is now best known for...
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