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Tom Wolfe

1930 - 2018

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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City. Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (an account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tom Wolfe is the 2,057th most popular writer (down from 2,039th in 2019), the 3,010th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,574th in 2019) and the 243rd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Tom Wolfe ranks 2,057 out of 7,302. Before him are Eutychius of Alexandria, Vsevolod Garshin, Bernard Malamud, Eugene Nida, Nodar Dumbadze, and Aleksa Šantić. After him are William of Moerbeke, Maria Konopnicka, Rhonda Byrne, Johann Karl August Musäus, James E. Gunn, and Frederick Marryat.

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Among people born in 1930, Tom Wolfe ranks 164. Before him are Kinji Fukasaku, Anatoly Lukyanov, Thomas Williams, Charles Rangel, Fritz Wunderlich, and James Baker. After him are Oleg Popov, Franzl Lang, Manuel Marulanda, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Harold Bloom, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Among people deceased in 2018, Tom Wolfe ranks 123. Before him are Luis García Meza, Nicanor Parra, Lawrence Roberts, Josep Lluís Núñez, Richard Pipes, and Eduard Uspensky. After him are Maria Bueno, Adem Demaçi, Azeglio Vicini, Vitaliy Masol, Thorvald Stoltenberg, and Harlan Ellison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tom Wolfe ranks 3,010 out of 20,380. Before him are Tracy Morgan (1968), Edwin Hall (1855), Jenna Dewan (1980), Bernard Malamud (1914), Eugene Nida (1914), and Rob Schneider (1963). After him are T Bone Burnett (1948), Sunita Williams (1965), Edward Herrmann (1943), James E. Gunn (1923), Jon Favreau (1966), and Danny Kaye (1911).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tom Wolfe ranks 243. Before him are Walter Tevis (1928), Langston Hughes (1902), Audre Lorde (1934), Jane Jacobs (1916), Bernard Malamud (1914), and Eugene Nida (1914). After him are James E. Gunn (1923), Carl Sandburg (1878), Edmond Hamilton (1904), Kate Millett (1934), John W. Campbell (1910), and William Steig (1907).

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