Tom Wolfe
American author and journalist (1930–2018)
Biography
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1930 and died in 2018. He worked as a journalist, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. Wolfe became known for his association with New Journalism, a style that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and blended literary techniques with news writing. Much of his work employed satire and examined the counterculture of the 1960s, class distinctions, social status, and the lives of New York's economic and intellectual elites.
Occupation
Tom Wolfe is recorded as a non-fiction writer, a prose writer, a novelist, a essayist, a journalist, a reporter, a writer and a screenwriter, born in Virginia (1930–2018).
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