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Bio

(1930-2018) Journalist, novelist. Tom Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Tom Wolfe

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Mr. Wolfe spent many summers in a rented house in Southampton, New York.

1930

BIRTH

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 2, 1930.

1962

RESIDENCE

Mr. Wolfe moved to New York in 1962 and lived for many years on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York.

1965

LITWORK

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Collection of essays.

1968

LITWORK

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Nonfiction.

1970

LITWORK

Radical Chic And Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers
Farrar Straus and Giroux
0374246009 / 978-0374246006
Collection of essays.

1975

LITWORK

The Painted Word
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374228787 / 978-0374228781
Nonfiction.

1979

LITWORK

The Right Stuff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374250324 / 978-0374250324
Nonfiction winner of the National Book Award.

1981

LITWORK

From Bauhaus To Our House
Farrar Straus & Giroux
0374158924 / 978-0374158927
Nonfiction.

1987

LITWORK

The Bonfire Of The Vanities
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0-312-42757-3
Novel.

1998

LITWORK

A Man In Full
Farrar Straus Giroux
0374270309 / 978-0374270308
Novel.

2000

LITWORK

Hooking Up
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374103828 / 978-0374103828
Collection of essay and a novella.

2004

LITWORK

I Am Charlotte Simmons
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374281580 / 978-0002005913
Novel.

2012

LITWORK

Back To Blood
Little, Brown and Company
0316036315 / 978-0316036313
Novel.

2018

DEATH

Tom Wolfe died at a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on May 14, 2018.

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