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	Tom Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe (born March 2, 1930) is an American author and journalist, best known as one of the founders of the new journalism.
		Wolfe has been a leading advocate for the preservation of 2 Columbus Circle, an iconic building in New York City that was slated to be radically altered and occupied by the Museum of Art and Design in 2005.
		Wolfe is mentioned in the 2005 animated film Madagascar (film) where Mason the ape says "I hear Tom Wolfe's speaking at Lincoln Center." (the other ape, Phil signs frantically) "Well, of course we're going to fling poo at him!"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Wolfe (1529 words)

	Tom Wolfe - MSN Encarta
		Tom Wolfe (journalist), born in 1931, American journalist and writer, one of the leading practitioners of New Journalism, which blends fictional styles and techniques with journalistic writing.
		Wolfe is also the author of the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), A Man in Full (1998), and I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004).
		Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., was born in Richmond, Virginia, and in 1951 received an undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University, where he played on the baseball team.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=701610455 (488 words)

	Jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tom Wolfe, Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities and director of jazz studies, Leadership Board Fellow.
		Recently, Wolfe appears on a new CD by former student, Shane Porter who produced the CD and arranged a majority of the repertoire on the recording.
		Wolfe explains: “My music is based in the jazz tradition, but with all the other influences of my life mixed in.
	bama.ua.edu /~twolfe/wolfebio.htm (641 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfe, for instance, intimates his competence and trustworthiness through the frequent use of historical analogy, which, beyond illuminating the subject and strengthening the analysis presented (because it appears congruent with precedent), allows Wolfe to demonstrate knowledge of history, literature, science, and so forth in the nonsuspect process of appearing to present a logical argument.
		Wolfe's poised, confident tone is enhanced further by his use of hyperbole and its implication that the analysis is hilariously patent.
		Wolfe's journalism was new--a subset of the larger, established category of literary journalism--to the extent that he engaged his subject "experientially," and the posture was hitherto uncommon.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~despey/wolfe.htm (3743 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Tom Wolfe is a spry fellow, arch and gently convivial in his well-appointed Manhattan apartment.
		Wolfe, was owing to his "great decisiveness and willingness to fight." But as to "this business of my having done the unthinkable and voted for George Bush, I would say, now look, I voted for George Bush but so did 62,040,609 other Americans.
		Wolfe has a habit of using experience and anecdote to gird an argument or shade a meaning, and he carries on like this for some time.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110008076 (1829 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| US elections 2004 \| 'The liberal elite hasn't got a clue'
		Photograph: AP Tom Wolfe casts his gaze across America at this election time, with eyes that change mood in a nanosecond, with a flicker.
		Wolfe set out, for the first time, to write the book on a computer, but gave up in favour of his usual typewriter.
		Wolfe's lambent success in documenting ambition, drunkenness, sloth and meanness in his own country has taken him from his native Virginia to New York which he wrote about in Bonfire of the Vanities, pitching the super-rich "Masters of the Universe" in high finance against the real world of the Bronx.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uselections2004/story/0,13918,1340525,00.html (2226 words)

	John Derbyshire on I am Charlotte Simmons & Tom Wolfe on National Review Online
		Wolfe's authorial tone to the reader is: You don't have to like this, and I'm not too crazy about it myself, but this is the way it is, and we both know it.
		Wolfe is the antidote to all this sugary glop.
		Wolfe does a fine job of turning all this into actual human events, culminating in a heartbreaking phone conversation between Charlotte and her mother, a fundamentalist Christian.
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire200412030818.asp (1771 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfe was the eye that peered into the crazy world of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they tripped around mid-1960s America.
		Two years later, Wolfe was onto very different things: as the racial tensions of the '60s heated up, he filed a report from a party thrown by Leonard and Felicia Bernstein to benefit the Black Panthers.
		Wolfe talks about the immigration of hippies to San Francisco and how their ideas and ideals related to those of the Bauhaus movement's "Start from Zero" concept.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?wosid=NO&id=782 (683 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: I Am Charlotte Simmons: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfe attempts and succeeds at achieving an insightful relay of 'classic' events and scenarios that befall students and manages to convey the heroine's eternal struggle with 'who she is'.
		Credit to 73-year-old Tom Wolfe for what is clearly an enormous amount of research and a laudable attempt to enter not just the frame of mind of young students but also to copy their language to a great, and amusing, level of detail.
		Tom Wolfe has said he visited many colleges and talked with and observed the students to learn and understand the lives of whom he would write.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0224074865 (1783 words)

	Tom Wolfe Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		As a boy, Tom Wolfe was an avid reader, and early in life he formed an ambition to become a professional writer.
		Wolfe replied with a long, spontaneous letter, dispensing with traditional journalistic conventions and describing the whole scene in a vivid, personal voice.
		Wolfe was now the most talked-about young journalist in America, and his days as a daily newspaper reporter were over.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/wol0bio-1 (1240 words)

	Featured Author: Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tom Wolfe, whose sharp wit and distinctive first-person reportage made him the prototypical New Journalist has, at age 57, written a novel.
		Tom Wolfe's New York may be the most cynical city in history.
		Tom Wolfe in "Bonfire of the Vanities" and Leo Tolstoy in "Master and Man" both focus on money-minded men who live aggressively self-centered lives.
	www.nytimes.com /glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/08/specials/wolfe.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=4287466aQ2F)yde)apDQ7Djpps)eppQ7CQ7D)0t)UU)Q2Bt)Q7DmdDfJQ20Q7D)ypQ204dFQ3FsQ24Q20 (958 words)

	Alibris: Tom Wolfe
		Wolfe masterfully chronicles college sports, fraternities, keggers, coeds, and sex--all through the eyes of Charlotte Simmons, a bright and beautiful freshman at the fictional Dupont University.
		Tom Wolfe's THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST is one of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, revolutionizing the way the reporters wrote about the world.
		Tom Wolfe's novel stars a college football star turned millionaire businessman who, in late middle age, finds himself with a troublesome young wife and a mountain of debt.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Wolfe,Tom (988 words)

	CJR March/April 2006 - The Tripster in Wolfe's Clothing
		Tom Wolfe writes himself into the second sentence of his book about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, describing a boaty ride up and down the streets of San Francisco in the open bed of a Day-Glo-painted pickup truck.
		Wolfe’s Kesey is heroic in the Homeric rather than the tragic sense — manly, clever, a leader, daring, and charismatic.
		Wolfe claims that he was blocked and that his editor, Byron Dobell, told him to send notes, as the magazine had already committed art and pages to the story.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2006/2/Shafer.asp?printerfriendly=yes (2180 words)

	bookideas.com: A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
		Tom Wolfe happens to be one of our most remarkable living writers.
		Wolfe's characters are presented with a few simple brush-strokes, that Quickly take on nuances as they move through the novel.
		Wolfe was one of the pioneers of the "new journalism"...
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=293 (712 words)

	A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
		Wolfe's prose is so rich and his sense of narrative pacing so perfect that the reader will gulp down chunks of this novel like a tired swimmer gasping for air.
		Wolfe's nimble, often enthralling orchestration of several rollicking story lines -- cross-cut cinematically to build tension -- comes to a screeching halt in the last few chapters of this novel.
		Tom Wolfe, born in Virginia, studied at Washington and Lee University, and at Yale, where he received his Ph.D. in American Studies.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/wolfet/manfull.htm (2509 words)

	Interview with Tom Wolfe
		Wolfe is the author of 11 books, including "The Right Stuff," "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," "From Bauhaus to Our House" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities." His newest novel, which he is completing, was tentatively titled "The Mayflies," but Wolfe says "those flies kept making me itch," so he's working on a new title.
		In his speech, titled "The End of the Century and the Spirit of the Age," Wolfe will examine the social and moral climate of the last decade and the legacy it has left for the 1990s.
		Wolfe proposes that if the 1980s were the decade of "money fever," then the '90s are the decade of "moral fever," with debate over moral codes and cultural values taking center stage in national politics.
	brown.edu /Administration/George_Street_Journal/v20/v20n24/wolfe.html (1134 words)

	The American Spectator
		Published 1/10/2005 12:07:01 AM TOM WOLFE IS AMERICA'S preeminent observer of decaying elites, chronicling and often forecasting their decline in his journalism and novels.
		Tom Wolfe: No, the novel is committing suicide as fast as it can by turning its back on the world.
		Tom Wolfe: There are a lot of subjects I would cover, such as fl middle-class life, which is totally ignored by the press.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7601 (3272 words)

	NIH: Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up
		Wolfe even descends to the contention that the Nazis were socialists because they called themselves socialists).
		Wolfe is proud of the United States for being a "powerful, prosperous, and popular" society in which elite standards can be toppled.
		Wolfe is proud to be a citizen of a country in which the people set standards and in which issues like one's responsibility for one's actions are seriously investigated.
	www.newimprovedhead.com /wolfe2.htm (987 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Wolfe scoops Bad Sex award
		Wolfe's third novel is set in an imaginary elite Ivy League university and is seen through the eyes of his eponymous heroine - a shy, virginal country girl who is initially shocked by the decadence and excess she encounters.
		Wolfe spent four years roaming the campuses of America's top universities researching the novel and claimed in a Guardian interview that "I have tried to make the sex un-erotic.
		Clearly the Literary Review judges agreed with him but although the actor Tom Conti was on hand to present Wolfe with his prize - a semi-abstract statue and a bottle of champagne - Wolfe was one of the very few authors in the award's 12 year history to decline the invitation.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1373442,00.html (531 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am Charlotte Simmons : A Novel: Books: Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfe receives a record $5 million for movie rights to the novel and, despite the success of the book, the film fails at the box office.
		Wolfe begins, as he might say, with a "bango": two frat boys tangle with the bodyguard of a politician they've caught in a sex act.
		Wolfe should realize that virginity is less of a big deal now than it was in the 1950-60's, that kids are more savvy and they mature sooner than they did back then.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374281580?v=glance (3136 words)

	Unofficial Guide to Tom Wolfe
		"Tom Wolfe is a groove and a gas.
		"Tom Wolfe is more than brilliant…he is more than urbane, suave, trenchant, Tom Wolfe is a goddamn joy…also, not to insult him, he writes like a mater." –Book World.
		Tom Wolfe was born on March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia.
	members.tripod.com /oshelg/wolfe.html (683 words)

	The Village Voice: VLS: The White Stuff
		One of the things I was surprised Wolfe did well in this book is his portrait of these two members of the "Morehouse elite." From middle-class upbringings, wildly successful in their careers, both men lack street credibility but are too honest and intelligent to pretend otherwise.
		Of homeboy dress, Wolfe explains that the bandannas and baggy jeans worn without belts are "jailhouse fashions." This is not news, not even to me, a guy who spends all day in his room.
		Wolfe, investigator of the political and financial machinations of urban America, shows here a country boy's affection for the flora of south Georgia.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/159/eugenides.shtml (2230 words)

	Amazon.com: Hooking Up: Books: Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tom Wolfe's name is now so well known that the cover of his new collection bears just that: Tom Wolfe's name.
		However, Wolfe's meticulous eye for detail shows signs of jaundice in his hectoring anti-Communist tirades and in the title essay, which turns a snide backward glance on the turn of the millennium.
		Tom Wolff, best known for his biting social satire and pioneering use of strong, conversational reactions and exclamations in his nonfiction reportage, surveys American social and political mores in this collection of old and new essays and a novella.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312420234?v=glance (2490 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Dumpster Bust Exclusive: Interview with Tom Wolfe
		Wolfe's latest, I Am Charlotte Simmons, an expose in modern collegiate life that is rife with the social, racial, and class clashes that he is so well known for.
		Wolfe, probably a publicist of some kind, who had the job of opening the book to the title page and handing it over to the author, which I found interesting) I noticed that Mr.
		Wolfe said that he was for a time, and then delved into some kind of story that had McMurtry on the lam in Mexico.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/12/13/211721.php (2141 words)

	How does Tom Wolfe's new novel stack up? By Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf
		Wolfe chose the contemporary American university as the setting for I Am Charlotte Simmons, but the roiling Orgasmatron he lays before the reader will be familiar to precisely no one.
		Those who would praise Wolfe for being horrified by the bestial reversion of the young fail to see how much of a relief this reversion is to Wolfe.
		Wolfe came of age back then, too, and he's no doubt been amused and even appalled to hear his twentysomething daughter's accounts—the book is dedicated to his children*—of how times have changed.
	slate.com /id/2109579/entry/0 (1751 words)

	Althouse: "This business of my having done the unthinkable and voted for George Bush..." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wolfe has some good things to say about other things too, including this: "Using the Internet is the modern form of knitting," he continues.
		Wolfe argues that the awarding committee completely missed the point of the sex scene, which was designed to be non-erotic.
		Tom Wolfe grasps his pearls and faints when he realizes that some University students drink too much and have sex.
	althouse.blogspot.com /2006/03/this-business-of-my-having-done.html (4155 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The New Journalism, by Tom Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the early 1960's, working more or less independently, journalists like Gay Talese, Jimmy Breslin, and Tom Wolfe, and novelists-turned-journalists like Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and James Baldwin, were beginning to employ certain novelistic techniques in the writing of nonfiction.
		...According to Wolfe, it is the element of the factual in the New Journalism that removes all "screens" between literature and its audience and puts "the writer one step closer to the absolute involvement of the reader that Henry James and James Joyce dreamed of and never achieved...
		...All Wolfe's scorn notwitllstandling, however, it is literature, and -however one may blush to say it -even "life" itself, and not merely posturing intellectuals, that raise questions about the ethical or theological dimensions of art or about the nature of aesthetic response...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V56I4P86-1.htm (1622 words)

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