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Born in 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, Tom Wolfe had dreams of playing baseball professionally. Although he came closer to baseball glory than most with the same aspiration, he settled for writing. He earned an education at Washington and Lee, and attended graduate school at Yale University. His doctoral thesis addressed Communist Organizational Activity among American Writers, 1929-1942.
Wolfe took his first newspaper job in 1956 and soon worked for The Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune. During this time, he experimented with fictional techniques in feature stories, and he is credited with inaugurating the New Journalism, which ignored conventional journalistic rules and conventions.
His career advanced with the publication of The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. In 1979, he published The Right Stuff, which won the American Book Award for Nonfiction. In the 1980s, he became a household name with the Bonfire of the Vanities.
He continues to write novels, and among his most recent is the highly successful A Man in Full; his latest release is I am Charlotte Simmons. Tom Wolfe lives in New York City.
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