The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) was an American author and journalist who was one of the founders of New Journalism and one of the most brilliant and entertaining prose stylists of the twentieth century. Born in Richmond, Virginia, he studied at Washington and Lee University and received a doctorate in American Studies from Yale. His early journalism, collected in books like The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), revolutionised American literary journalism with its flamboyant style and novelistic techniques. Read more →