Tom Wolfe (1) (1930–2018)
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Tom Wolfe
From Bauhaus to Our House 1,351 eksemplarer
Det mandarinskivebolsjefarvede, strømlinjede superhyl møder Pumpehus-slænget (1965) 1,060 eksemplarer
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976) — Forfatter; Illustrator, nogle udgaver — 338 eksemplarer
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers/The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test/The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake… (1990) 128 eksemplarer
New York Herald Tribune Presents New York, New York 4 eksemplarer
Bonfire of the vanities 2 eksemplarer
Wolfe Tom 2 eksemplarer
The Mid-Atlantic Man 1 eksemplar
A Bonfire of The Vanities 1 eksemplar
Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s 1 eksemplar
Newsweek Condensed Books: The Right Stuff / Kennedy and Roosevelt / The Fall of Fortresses / Heyday / The Dictionary of… (1980) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Två ironiska reportage 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragyder — 245 eksemplarer
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Bidragyder — 214 eksemplarer
Three Novels : Mildred Pierce; Double Indemnity; The Postman Always Rings Twice; (1934) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 211 eksemplarer
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Remembering Jack: Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys (2003) — Efterskrift — 116 eksemplarer
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Bidragyder — 92 eksemplarer
Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington (1988) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 77 eksemplarer
New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine (2008) — Forord — 67 eksemplarer
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Classic Rock & Pop Writing from Elvis to Oasis (1996) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
Beyond the Boom: New Voices on American Life, Culture, and Politics (1990) — Introduktion — 14 eksemplarer
À la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion (1973) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 8 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Wolfe, Tom
- Juridisk navn
- Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly, Jr.
- Fødselsdato
- 1930-03-02
- Dødsdag
- 2018-05-14
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Richmond, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- antibiotic-resistant infection
- Bopæl
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA - Uddannelse
- St. Christopher's School
Washington and Lee University (BA|English|1951)
Yale University (PhD|American Studies|1957) - Erhverv
- writer
journalist - Organisationer
- Springfield Union
The Washington Post
New York Herald Tribune
Esquire
New Journalism
Rolling Stone (vis alle 7)
Harper's Magazine - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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) (vis alle 17)
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)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2008) - Agent
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Medlemmer
Discussions
Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe i Someone explain it to me... (marts 2021)
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Page 227, said by Martha Croker: Here I am at fifty-three, trying to start over as a woman--in this ludicrous factory for boys with breasts!
Page 259, said by Harry Zale: Lenin had it easy. He didn't have to clean after a shithead like Charlie Croker.
Page 259, said by Harry Zale: Lenin had it easy. He didn't have to clean after a shithead like Charlie Croker.
Highly enjoyable critique of the origin and content (Flatness!!) of Abstract Expressionism and other Modern Art schools. No more trouble to read than a lengthy essay.
Finally finished the bastard---it was a real slog. I'm sure the writing is some people's cup of tea, but not mine.
The most interesting part of it, and the only part that has stayed with me strongly, was the description of how it all went sour---the point where the civil rights movement stopped being cool and was dropped in favor of drugs. Definitely a warning.
The most interesting part of it, and the only part that has stayed with me strongly, was the description of how it all went sour---the point where the civil rights movement stopped being cool and was dropped in favor of drugs. Definitely a warning.
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- Værker
- 45
- Also by
- 35
- Medlemmer
- 36,824
- Popularitet
- #497
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 540
- ISBN
- 668
- Sprog
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- Udvalgt
- 99
This novel is unique. I can appreciate the efforts and how it’s written. Few authors can write like this and do it well. That being said, it was hard to focus on at times.
You’re either on the bus or off the bus...and I guess I’m just off the bus.