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Tom Wolfe

1930 - 2018

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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Wolfe has received more than 3,358,917 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Tom Wolfe is the 2,040th most popular writer (down from 1,442nd in 2019), the 2,574th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,839th in 2019) and the 224th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
1968
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Fiction / General
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a masterpiece, a riotous, exuberant and passionate epic that captures the greed and corruption of eighties New York and examines it under the microscope of Wolfe's famed satiric wit. Sherman McCoy, Wall Street wunderkind, seems to have it all; a salary like a telephone number, a home on Park Avenue, a beautiful wife and child, a mistress, a Mercedes. He is a Master of the Universel But then he gets lost one dark night in the Bronx, and his mercedes hits something. That something turns out to be Henry Lamb, a young black man who is now in a coma; for Sherman meanwhile, everything is about to unravel so fast he will hardly have time to change his thousand dollar suit ...
19874 / 5
From Bauhaus to our house
1981
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
1970
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
1965
The painted word
1975

Page views of Tom Wolfes by language

Over the past year Tom Wolfe has had the most page views in the with 387,354 views, followed by Spanish (27,017), and Italian (23,894). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (35.67%), English (24.24%), and Simple English (19.64%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tom Wolfe ranks 2,040 out of 7,302. Before him are Sulpicia, Menander Protector, Carl Zuckmayer, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Annette Kellermann, and Fyodor Sologub. After him are Ahmad ibn Arabshah, Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Mahsati, Maria Konopnicka, and Dora d'Istria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Tom Wolfe ranks 149. Before him are Bernard Collomb, Tanya Savicheva, Stephen Sondheim, Philippe Leroy, Stephen Smale, and Tony Lip. After him are Choe Thae-bok, Manuel Marulanda, Viktor Tikhonov, José Águas, Anthony Steffen, and Ilon Wikland. Among people deceased in 2018, Tom Wolfe ranks 112. Before him are Dennis Nilsen, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Raymond Chow, Josep Lluís Núñez, Irena Szewińska, and Choi Eun-hee. After him are Philip Kerr, Lill-Babs, Luis García Meza, Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Đỗ Mười, and Sridevi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tom Wolfe ranks 2,574 out of 20,380. Before him are Tony Lip (1930), John C. Bogle (1929), Jean Kennedy Smith (1928), Peter Gallagher (1955), Chris Noth (1954), and Christina Applegate (1971). After him are Edward Weston (1886), William Henry Pickering (1858), Sal Mineo (1939), Terry Crews (1968), Charles Napier (1936), and Bonnie Bedelia (1948).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Tom Wolfe ranks 224. Before him are Jane Jacobs (1916), Eugene Nida (1914), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Richard Brautigan (1935), and Bob Woodward (1943). After him are Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), John Grinder (1940), Walter Tevis (1928), James M. Cain (1892), Terry Brooks (1944), and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919).

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