Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe (1931 to 2018), full name Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., was an American author born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Open Library's biography traces a ten-year newspaper career before his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, appeared in 1965 and made him a leading figure in the literary experiments in nonfiction known as New Journalism. It names The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Right Stuff, an account of the rocket airplane experiments and the early space program that won the American Book Award for nonfiction. The catalogue also lists his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities as his top work among 58 works.