Tom Wolfe (1) (1930–2018)
Autor de La hoguera de las vanidades
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Sobre El Autor
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia on March 2, 1930. He received bachelor's degree in English from Washington and Lee University in 1951 and a Ph.D in American studies from Yale University in 1957. He started his journalism career as a general-assignment reporter at The mostrar más Springfield Union. While he was working for The Washington Post, he was assigned to cover Latin America and won the Washington Newspaper Guild's foreign news prize for a series on Cuba in 1961. In 1962, he became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune and a staff writer for New York magazine. His work also appeared in Harper's and Esquire. His first book, a collection of articles about the flamboyant Sixties written for New York and Esquire entitled The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, was published in 1968. His other collections included Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and Hooking Up. His non-fiction works included The Pump House Gang; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Painted Word; Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine; In Our Time; and From Bauhaus to Our House. The Right Stuff won the American Book Award for nonfiction, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Harold Vursell Award for prose style, and the Columbia Journalism Award. It was adapted into a film in 1983. His fiction books included The Bonfire of the Vanities, Ambush at Fort Bragg, A Man in Full, The Kingdom of Speech, I Am Charlotte Simmons, and Back to Blood. He was also a contributing artist at Harper's from 1978 to 1981. Many of his illustrations were collected in In Our Time. He died on May 14, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Tom Wolfe
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers/The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test/The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake… (1990) 128 copias
Bonfire of the vanities 2 copias
Wolfe Tom 2 copias
The Mid-Atlantic Man 1 copia
A Bonfire of The Vanities 1 copia
Newsweek Condensed Books: The Right Stuff / Kennedy and Roosevelt / The Fall of Fortresses / Heyday / The Dictionary of… (1980) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Två ironiska reportage 1 copia
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The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contribuidor — 246 copias
El cartero siempre llama dos veces ; Mildred Palce ; Pacto de sangre (1934) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 213 copias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 133 copias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington (1988) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 78 copias
New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine (2008) — Prólogo — 67 copias
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Classic Rock & Pop Writing from Elvis to Oasis (1996) — Contribuidor — 31 copias
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 29 copias
Beyond the Boom: New Voices on American Life, Culture, and Politics (1990) — Introducción — 14 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Wolfe, Tom
- Nombre legal
- Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly, Jr.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1930-03-02
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-05-14
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Richmond, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- antibiotic-resistant infection
- Lugares de residencia
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- St. Christopher's School
Washington and Lee University (BA|English|1951)
Yale University (PhD|American Studies|1957) - Ocupaciones
- writer
journalist - Organizaciones
- Springfield Union
The Washington Post
New York Herald Tribune
Esquire
New Journalism
Rolling Stone (mostrar todos 7)
Harper's Magazine - Premios y honores
- Jefferson Lecture (2006)
Washington Newspaper Guild Award ( [1961])
Society of Magazine Writers Award for Excellence (1970)
National Humanities Medal (2001)
Frank Luther Mott Research Award (1973)
John Dos Passos Award (1984) (mostrar todos 17)
Virginia Laureate for Literature (1977)
Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Institute of Arts and Letters (1980)
Art History Citation (National Sculpture Society ∙ 1980)
Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence (1986)
St. Louis Literary Award (1990)
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2010)
Gari Melchers Medal (1986)
Benjamin Pierce Cheney Medal (Eastern Washington University ∙ 1986)
Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2003)
Golden Plate Award (American Academy of Achievement, 2005)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2008) - Agente
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Miembros
Debates
Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe en Someone explain it to me... (marzo 2021)
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- Popularidad
- #494
- Valoración
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- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 668
- Idiomas
- 22
- Favorito
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