Tom Wolfe
American journalist and novelist who co-founded New Journalism, applying the techniques of fiction to nonfiction to create a vivid, participatory, maximalist style. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff are his nonfiction masterpieces. He later became a bestselling novelist with Bonfire of the Vanities.
Works
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestGonzo journalism: Ken Kesey and Merry Pranksters' psychedelic bus journey
- The Right StuffNarrative nonfiction: Mercury Seven astronauts and space race test pilots
- The Bonfire of the VanitiesNovel: ambitious man navigates New York City finance and society
- Radical ChicEssay: wealthy New York radicals and celebrity-seeking activism movements
- Mau-Mauing the Flak CatchersEssay: intimidation tactics used against welfare bureaucrats
- A Man in FullNovel: Atlanta real estate magnate faces financial ruin and prison
- I Am Charlotte SimmonsNovel: college social hierarchies and romantic entanglements at fictional university
- Back to BloodNovel: Miami detective confronts drug trafficking and Cuban immigrant tensions
- Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak CatchersEssays: wealthy activists and intimidation of welfare officials collected
- The Painted WordEssay: critique of abstract modernist art and its intellectual pretensions
- Bonfire of the VanitiesNovel: ambitious man navigates New York City finance and society