Author

Books by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) was the American journalist and novelist who, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion, invented New Journalism in the 1960s and 1970s. His books of journalism include The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic, and The Painted Word, and his novels The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full were major literary events. The Right Stuff, published in 1979, is widely considered his masterpiece. He taught at the Columbia School of Journalism and received the National Book Award for his first novel.