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Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [1] [2] He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. [1]
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a 1968 nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe [2] written in the New Journalism literary style. By 1970, this style began to be referred to as Gonzo journalism, a term coined for the work of Hunter S. Thompson.
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.
“Radical Wolfe” is based on Michael Lewis’s 2015 Vanity Fair article “How Tom Wolfe Became…Tom Wolfe,” and Lewis, interviewed throughout the film, says that “Wolfe, when he wrote ...
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Adapted from the novel by the late Tom Wolfe, known for his insight into elites in “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” this soap about an Atlanta real-estate mogul facing sudden bankruptcy seldom ...
The title of Thomas Wolfe's novel comes from the John Milton poem "Lycidas": "Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth." (163–164) Wolfe's original title was The Building of a Wall, [5] which he later changed to O Lost. [2]
Art critics were, in turn, highly critical of Wolfe's book, arguing that he was a philistine who knew nothing of what he wrote. [1] After The Painted Word, Wolfe published a collection of his essays, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976), and his history of the earliest years of the space program, The Right Stuff (1979).