Tom Wolfe (1) (1930–2018)
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Het geschilderde woord (1975) — Auteur; Illustrator, sommige edities — 955 exemplaren, 18 besprekingen
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New York Herald Tribune Presents New York, New York 4 exemplaren
Bonfire of the vanities 2 exemplaren
Wolfe Tom 2 exemplaren
The Mid-Atlantic Man 1 exemplaar
A Bonfire of The Vanities 1 exemplaar
Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s 1 exemplaar
Newsweek Condensed Books: The Right Stuff / Kennedy and Roosevelt / The Fall of Fortresses / Heyday / The Dictionary of… (1980) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Två ironiska reportage 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Wolfe, Tom
- Officiële naam
- Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly, Jr.
- Geboortedatum
- 1930-03-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2018-05-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Richmond, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- antibiotic-resistant infection
- Woonplaatsen
- Richmond, Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- St. Christopher's School
Washington and Lee University (BA|English|1951)
Yale University (Ph.D|American Studies|1957) - Beroepen
- writer
journalist - Organisaties
- Springfield Union
The Washington Post
New York Herald Tribune
Esquire
New Journalism
Rolling Stone (toon alle 7)
Harper's Magazine - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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) (toon alle 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) - Agent
- Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
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Bonfire of the Vanities: Tom Wolfe in Someone explain it to me... (maart 2021)
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Pure klasse door Tom Wolfe
Dit boek is precies wat de titel zegt: Pure Klasse!
Met de keuze van zeven astronauten voor het bemande Amerikaanse ruimtevaartprogramma "Mercury" in April 1959 werd de voorbereidingsfase afgesloten. Dit boek beschrijft de geschiedenis van deze 7 test piloten èn astronauten, aan wie zowel in technisch alsook mentaal opzicht hoge eisen werden gesteld. In het licht van de ruimterace met Rusland werden de betrokken astronauten ook nationale helden in Amerika! De auteur heeft vanaf 1973 zes jaar aan het boek gewerkt, in nauwe samenwerking met historici van het ruimtevaartbureau NASA. Een goed geschreven boek, dat tevens verfilmd is, met authentiek feitenmateriaal over deze turbulente begin periode en het heldendom van de bemande ruimtevaart. De auteur heeft een directe, verhalende schrijfstijl ("New journalism"), die het boek voor een grote lezerskring geschikt maakt.… (meer)
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