Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe, a pioneering American author and journalist, was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He attended Washington & Lee University and pursued graduate studies at Yale in 1957, after which he embarked on a decade-long career in reporting. In 1960, while working for the "Washington Post," he won the award for best reporting for his coverage of the regime change in Cuba. A pioneer of "New Journalism" in the 1960s, he collaborated with major publications. He wrote books based on journalistic research ("The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," 1968, "The Right Stuff," 1979) as well as literary works. His book "The Bonfire of the Vanities," which explores the money-driven New York of the 1980s, brought him worldwide fame. In 2010, the National Book Foundation awarded him the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.