School of Arts and Sciences 2001 Dean's Forum
Tom Wolfe
Bestselling author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and I Am
Charlotte Simmons
The Third Millennium and the Spirit of the Age
Tom Wolfe is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, a contemporary style of nonfiction writing. He graduated with his undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University and received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Wolfe began his career as a journalist, working for The Washington Post and The New York Herald Tribune. He published his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, in 1965.
Wolfe has spent more than three decades chronicling American culture and its foibles with uncanny accuracy and wit. His novel, A Man in Full, explores the New South and American race relations today, just as his celebrated novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, first serialized in Rolling Stone, captured the class structure and politics of New York in the 1980s.
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