Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA on March 2nd, 1930 and passed away at the age of 88 on May 14th, 2018.

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Tom Wolfe Stats: The highest rated book by Tom Wolfe on Book Notification is The Right Stuff, a Non-Fiction book. The second-highest rated book is The Bonfire of the Vanities, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by Tom Wolfe on Book Notification is The Bonfire of the Vanities, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is The Right Stuff, a Non-Fiction book.

Below is a complete list of Tom Wolfe books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons.

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	8.5 The Bonfire of the Vanities	1987	Loading... Go
2	9 A Man in Full	1998	Loading... Go
3	6.7 I Am Charlotte Simmons	2004	Loading... Go
4	6 Back to Blood	2012	Loading... Go

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

	Read	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1		9.3 Ambush at Fort Bragg	2000	Loading... Go

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

	Read	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1		Hooking Up	1989	Loading... Go

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are The Right Stuff, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and The Pump House Gang.

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	In Our Time	1961	Loading... Go
2	The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby	1965	Loading... Go
3	9 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	1968	Loading... Go
4	6 The Pump House Gang	1968	Loading... Go
5	Radical Chic: And, Mau Mauing The Flak Catchers	1970	Loading... Go
6	The New Journalism	1973	Loading... Go
7	The Painted Word	1975	Loading... Go
8	Mauve Gloves and Madman, Clutter and Vine	1977	Loading... Go
9	8.9 The Right Stuff	1979	Loading... Go
10	6 From Bauhaus to Our House	1981	Loading... Go
11	The Purple Decades	1982	Loading... Go
12	The Kingdom of Speech	2016	Loading... Go

List of Literary Conversations Books in Publication Order

Conversations with famous literary figures, providing insight into their lives and work.

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges	1969	Loading... Go
2	Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz	1981	Loading... Go
3	Conversations with Graham Greene	1983	Loading... Go
4	Conversations with Eudora Welty	1985	Loading... Go
5	Conversations with Walker Percy	1985	Loading... Go
6	Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer	1985	Loading... Go
7	Conversations with William Styron	1985	Loading... Go
8	Conversations with Malcolm Cowley	1986	Loading... Go
9	Conversations with Lillian Hellman	1986	Loading... Go
10	Conversations with Tennessee Williams	1986	Loading... Go
11	Conversations with Ernest Hemingway	1986	Loading... Go
12	Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter	1987	Loading... Go
13	Truman Capote: Conversations	1987	Loading... Go
14	Conversations with Flannery O'Connor	1987	Loading... Go
15	Conversations with Peter Taylor	1987	Loading... Go
16	Conversations with Arthur Miller	1987	Loading... Go
17	Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut	1988	Loading... Go
18	Conversations with Edward Albee	1988	Loading... Go
19	Conversations with Erskine Caldwell	1988	Loading... Go
20	Conversations with Norman Mailer	1988	Loading... Go
21	Conversations with Robert Graves	1989	Loading... Go
22	Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates	1989	Loading... Go
23	Conversations with Shelby Foote	1989	Loading... Go
24	Conversations with Robertson Davies	1989	Loading... Go
25	Conversations with James Baldwin	1989	Loading... Go
26	Conversations with John Gardner	1990	Loading... Go
27	Conversations with Richard Wilbur	1990	Loading... Go
28	Conversations with Tom Wolfe	1990	Loading... Go
29	Conversations with Raymond Carver	1990	Loading... Go
30	Conversations with Eugene O'Neill	1990	Loading... Go
31	Conversations with Reynolds Price	1991	Loading... Go
32	Conversations with Bernard Malamud	1991	Loading... Go
33	Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer	1991	Loading... Go
34	Conversations with Nikki Giovanni	1992	Loading... Go
35	Conversations With Thornton Wilder	1992	Loading... Go
36	Conversations with Robert Coles	1992	Loading... Go
37	Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher	1992	Loading... Go
38	More Conversations with Walker Percy	1993	Loading... Go
39	Conversations with Richard Wright	1993	Loading... Go
40	Conversations with Paul Bowles	1993	Loading... Go
41	Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris	1994	Loading... Go
42	Conversations with Amiri Baraka	1994	Loading... Go
43	10 Conversations with Toni Morrison	1994	Loading... Go
44	Conversations with Saul Bellow	1994	Loading... Go
45	Conversations with Henry Miller	1994	Loading... Go
46	Conversations With S.J. Perelman	1995	Loading... Go
47	Conversations with Ernest Gaines	1995	Loading... Go
48	Conversations with Ralph Ellison	1995	Loading... Go
49	Conversations with Chester Himes	1995	Loading... Go
50	Conversations with Susan Sontag	1995	Loading... Go
51	Conversations with Ishmael Reed	1995	Loading... Go
52	Conversations with Derek Walcott	1996	Loading... Go
53	More Conversations with Eudora Welty	1996	Loading... Go
54	Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop	1996	Loading... Go
55	Conversations with Pauline Kael	1996	Loading... Go
56	Conversations with V. S. Naipaul	1997	Loading... Go
57	Conversations with N. Scott Momaday	1997	Loading... Go
58	Conversations with Chinua Achebe	1997	Loading... Go
59	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston	1998	Loading... Go
60	Conversations with Denise Levertov	1998	Loading... Go
61	Conversations With William Faulkner	1999	Loading... Go
62	Conversations with E. L. Doctorow	1999	Loading... Go
63	Conversations With John Fowles	1999	Loading... Go
64	Conversations with Salman Rushdie	2000	Loading... Go
65	Conversations with William S. Burroughs	2000	Loading... Go
66	Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko	2000	Loading... Go
67	Conversations with Chaim Potok	2001	Loading... Go
68	Conversations with Richard Ford	2001	Loading... Go
69	Conversations with Christopher Isherwood	2001	Loading... Go
70	Conversations with Mary Gordon	2002	Loading... Go
71	Conversations with Jim Harrison	2002	Loading... Go
72	Conversations with Clarence Major	2002	Loading... Go
73	Conversations with Margaret Walker	2002	Loading... Go
74	Conversations with Erica Jong	2002	Loading... Go
75	Elie Wiesel: Conversations	2002	Loading... Go
76	Joseph Brodsky: Conversations	2003	Loading... Go
77	Conversations with Rita Dove	2003	Loading... Go
78	7.3 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald	2003	Loading... Go
79	Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks	2003	Loading... Go
80	Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann	2003	Loading... Go
81	Conversations with Gloria Naylor	2004	Loading... Go
82	Conversations with Audre Lorde	2004	Loading... Go
83	Conversations with Ray Bradbury	2004	Loading... Go
84	Conversations With John le Carré	2004	Loading... Go
85	Conversations with Isaac Asimov	2005	Loading... Go
86	Conversations with Don DeLillo	2005	Loading... Go
87	Conversations with Gore Vidal	2005	Loading... Go
88	Conversations with Robert Penn Warren	2005	Loading... Go
89	Conversations with Jack Kerouac	2005	Loading... Go
90	Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez	2005	Loading... Go
91	Conversations with Thomas McGuane	2006	Loading... Go
92	Conversations with Larry Brown	2007	Loading... Go
93	Conversations with Sonia Sanchez	2007	Loading... Go
94	Conversations with Wendell Berry	2007	Loading... Go
95	Conversations with Leon Forrest	2007	Loading... Go
96	Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro	2008	Loading... Go
97	Conversations with Jimmy Carter	2023	Loading... Go
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List of Tom Wolfe Anthologies in Publication Order

#	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Writing New York	1998	Loading... Go
2	Writing Los Angeles	2002	Loading... Go
3	The Little Big Book of California	2005	Loading... Go
4	Way More than Luck	2015	Loading... Go
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Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe (Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.) was born on March 2nd, 1930. Tom passed away May 14th, 2018 at 88 years old. Tom Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

Tom Wolfe has written 12 Non-Fiction Books. The first was released in 1961 with the book In Our Time. The most recently released was The Kingdom of Speech which was released in 2016.

Tom Wolfe: Awards & Accolades

Tom Wolfe has won multiple awards including: The St. Louis Literary Award Distinguished Figure in Literature, in 1990 and the Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2007.

Tom Wolfe books have been nominated for multiple awards, A Man in Full was nominated for the National Book Awards, Best Fiction, in 1998. Ambush at Fort Bragg was nominated for the Audie Award, Best Original Work, in 1998. I Am Charlotte Simmons was nominated for the Audie Award, Best Male Narrator, in 2005 as well as the Audie Award - Best Fiction in 2005. The Bonfire of the Vanities was nominated for the Audie Award, Best Fiction, in 2010.

Tom Wolfe: Lists & Other Mentions

The Bonfire of the Vanities:
1. New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1988.
2. NPR: 100 Best Beach Books Selection in 2009.
3. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Radcliffe's List Selection in 1998.
4. New York Public Library: 125 Books We Love for Adults Selection in 2020.
5. The Guardian: 50 Books That Defined Their Era Selection in 2011.
6. People Magazine: Best Books From the 1980s Selection in 2024.
7. Waterstones: Books of the Century Selection in 1997.
8. The Independent: Books of the Decade (1980s) Selection in 1989.
9. Associated Press: The Best Of The 1980s Selection in 1989.
10. Entertainment Weekly: The New Classics - 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 Selection in 2008.
11. Entertainment Weekly: Top 100 Novels Selection in 2013.
A Man in Full:
1. New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1998 and 1999.
2. Publishers Weekly: Bestselling Novel in the United States in 1998.
The Right Stuff:
1. Amazon US: 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime Selection in 2014.
2. Reader's Digest: 50 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time Selection in 2024.
3. National Geographic Adventure Magazine: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time Selection in 2004.
4. Esquire: The 80 Books Every Man Should Read Selection in 2015.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test:
1. National Book Foundation: 100 Life-Changing Books Selection in 2006.
2. The Telegraph: 50 Best Cult Books Selection in 2016.
3. Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Selection in 2007.

Tom Wolfe: TV/Movies Based on Books

The Bonfire Of The Vanities series adaptation is not moving forward at Apple TV. [Details]

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John Grisham, author of the Jake Brigance Series.

Tom Wolfe: F.A.Q

When was Tom Wolfe Born?

Tom Wolfe was born on March 2nd, 1930.

When did Tom Wolfe die?

Tom Wolfe died on May 14th, 2018 at 88 years old.

Where was Tom Wolfe Born?

Tom Wolfe was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

What awards has Tom Wolfe won?

Tom Wolfe has won the following awards: Distinguished Figure in Literature at the St. Louis Literary Award (1990) and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Library of Virginia (2007).

What was the first book Tom Wolfe wrote?

The first book written by Tom Wolfe was In Our Time, published in 1961.

What was the most recent book Tom Wolfe wrote?

His most recently released work was The Kingdom of Speech on January 1st, 2016.

What is the most popular book by Tom Wolfe?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Tom Wolfe book is The Bonfire of the Vanities. Here are his most popular books and their average ratings:

The Bonfire of the Vanities (8.45)
The Right Stuff (8.93)
A Man in Full (9.00)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (9.00)
I Am Charlotte Simmons (6.67)

How many books has Tom Wolfe written?

Tom Wolfe has written 19 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 4 Standalone Novels, 1 Short Story/Novella, 1 book in the Short Story Collection, 12 Non-Fiction Books, 1 book in the Literary Conversations Series.

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