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Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (2 Maret 1930 – 14 Mei 2018
)[1] adalah seorang penulis dan jurnalis Amerika Serikat. Ia adalah salah seorang pendiri gerakan Jurnalisme Baru pada tahun 1960-an dan 1970-an.
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Lahir | Thomas Kennerly Wolfe (1930-03-02)2 Maret 1930[lower-alpha 1] Richmond, Virginia, Amerika Serikat |
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Meninggal | 14 Mei 2018(2018-05-14) (umur 88) New York City, New York, Amerika Serikat |
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Pekerjaan | Jurnalis, penulis |
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Bahasa | Inggris |
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Kebangsaan | Amerika |
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Pendidikan | Uiversitas Washington dan Lee (BA) Universitas Yale (PhD) |
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Periode | 1959–2016 |
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Aliran sastra | Jurnalisme Baru |
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Karya terkenal | The Painted Word, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, A Man in Full, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Bonfire of the Vanities, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Back to Blood |
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Pasangan | Sheila Berger Wolfe |
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Anak | 2 |
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Tutup
Wolfe tinggal di New York City bersama dengan istrinya Sheila, yang mendesain sampul Harper's Magazine. Mereka memiliki dua anak, seorang putri bernama Alexandra, dan putranya Tommy.[2]
Wolfe meninggal dunia karena infeksi di Manhattan pada tanggal 14 Mei 2018, pada usia 88 tahun.[3]
Non-fiksi
- The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
- The Pump House Gang (1968)
- Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)
- The New Journalism (1975) (Ed. with EW Johnson)
- The Painted Word (1975)
- Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)
- The Right Stuff (1979)
- In Our Time (1980)
- From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)
- The Purple Decades (1982)
- Hooking Up (2000)
Novel
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
- A Man in Full (1998)
- I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
- Back to Blood (2012)
Artikel terkenal
- "The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!" Esquire, March 1965.
- "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" New York Herald-Tribune supplement (April 11, 1965).
- "Lost in the Whichy Thicket," New York Herald-Tribune supplement (April 18, 1965).
- "The Birth of the New Journalism: Eyewitness Report by Tom Wolfe." New York, February 14, 1972.
- "The New Journalism: A la Recherche des Whichy Thickets." New York Magazine, February 21, 1972.
- "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore." Esquire, December 1972.
- "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", Harper's. November 1989.
- "Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died." Forbes 1996.
- "Pell Mell." The Atlantic Monthly (November, 2007).
- "The Rich Have Feelings, Too." Vanity Fair (September, 2009).
- Nonfiksi kreatif
- Realisme histeris
- Konsep fiksi-absolut
- Bloom, Harold, ed. (2001), Tom Wolfe (Modern Critical Views), Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, ISBN 0791059162
- McKeen, William. (1995), Tom Wolfe, New York: Twayne Publishers, ISBN 080574004X
- Ragen, Brian Abel. (2002), Tom Wolfe; A Critical Companion, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313313830
- Scura, Dorothy, ed. (1990), Conversations with Tom Wolfe, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 087805426X
- Shomette, Doug, ed. (1992), The Critical Response to Tom Wolfe, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313277842