Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe is an American author, born the March 2nd 1931 with Richmond in Virginia.

Journalist and essay writer, in the Sixties, it becomes (with Norman Mailer , Truman Capote , J. Didion, Hunter S. Thompson) one of the creators of what one called New Journalism in the United States. Its reports and its articles present an implicit criticism of various aspects of the american company. Several of its books had an appreciable success in bookstore, and more particularly the Fabric of the heroes , Acid test and Gauchisme de Park Avenue . Tom Wolfe is Lauréat of several prices of journalism.

With the wire of time, its criticisms ended up revealing a certain conservatism, which nowadays Wolfe does not deny. These sights found an expression more opened in its novel which begins at the end of the Eighties. Its first novel, To rough-hew It vanities (1987) became a world best-seller and was carried to the screen. The yuppies with their tics and their anguishes made the expenses of this satirical drama.

Its second novel, a man, a truth , depicts the racial tensions under unclaimed in the town of Atlanta, in the South of the United States (the same topic was touched in To rough-hew It vanities which proceeds in New York). It is a large fresco on the American south with a wild description of the white upper unbearable society and its vanities.

Its third novel, Me, Charlotte Simmons ( I Am Charlotte Simmons ), appeared in 2004 (French translation in 2006) offer a realistic image of the life on the campus of a large American university.

Become novelist, Tom Wolfe continuous to observe and note the life of its contemporaries, but its preserving moralism ends up weighing on its prose.

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