Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (2 Maret 1930 – 14 Mei 2018)[1] adalah seorang penulis dan jurnalis Amerika Serikat. Ia adalah salah seorang pendiri gerakan Jurnalisme Baru pada tahun 1960-an dan 1970-an.
Tom Wolfe | |
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 Wolfe di White House pada hari Senin, 22 Maret 2004 | |
| Lahir | Thomas Kennerly Wolfe 2 Maret 1930[a] Richmond, Virginia, Amerika Serikat |
| Meninggal | 14 Mei 2018 (umur 88) New York City, New York, Amerika Serikat |
| Pekerjaan | Jurnalis, penulis |
| Bahasa | Inggris |
| Kebangsaan | Amerika |
| Pendidikan | Uiversitas Washington dan Lee (BA) Universitas Yale (PhD) |
| Periode | 1959–2016 |
| Aliran sastra | Jurnalisme Baru |
| Karya terkenal | The Painted Word, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, A Man in Full, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Bonfire of the Vanities, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Back to Blood |
| Pasangan | Sheila Berger Wolfe |
| Anak | 2 |
Kehidupan pribadi sunting
Wolfe tinggal di New York City bersama dengan istrinya Sheila, yang mendesain sampul Harper's Magazine. Mereka memiliki dua anak, seorang putri bernama Alexandra, dan putranya Tommy.[2]
Wolfe meninggal dunia karena infeksi di Manhattan pada tanggal 14 Mei 2018, pada usia 88 tahun.[3]
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Non-fiksi sunting
- The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
- The Pump House Gang (1968)
- Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)
- The New Journalism (1975) (Ed. with EW Johnson)
- The Painted Word (1975)
- Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)
- The Right Stuff (1979)
- In Our Time (1980)
- From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)
- The Purple Decades (1982)
- Hooking Up (2000)
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- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
- A Man in Full (1998)
- I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
- Back to Blood (2012)
Artikel terkenal sunting
- "The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!" Esquire, March 1965.
- "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" New York Herald-Tribune supplement (April 11, 1965).
- "Lost in the Whichy Thicket," New York Herald-Tribune supplement (April 18, 1965).
- "The Birth of the New Journalism: Eyewitness Report by Tom Wolfe." New York, February 14, 1972.
- "The New Journalism: A la Recherche des Whichy Thickets." New York Magazine, February 21, 1972.
- "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore." Esquire, December 1972.
- "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", Harper's. November 1989.
- "Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died." Forbes 1996.
- "Pell Mell." The Atlantic Monthly (November, 2007).
- "The Rich Have Feelings, Too." Vanity Fair (September, 2009).
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- ^ Beberapa sumber mengatakan tahun lahirnya adalah tahun 1931; New York Times dan Reuters awalnya menuliskan tahun 1931 dalam obituari mereka sebelum diubah menjadi tahun 1930. Lihat "Tom Wolfe, 88, 'New Journalist' With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies". The New York Times. 15 Mei 2018. dan Trott, Bill. "'Bonfire of the Vanities' author Tom Wolfe dead at 88". Reuters.
- ^ Bloom, Harold. Tom Wolfe, Infobase Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-7910-5916-2, pg. 193.
- ^ Cash, William (29 November 1998). "Southern Man". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications – via sfgate.com.
- ^ Carmody, Deirdre; Grimes, William (15 Mei 2018). "Tom Wolfe, Author of 'The Right Stuff' and 'Bonfire of the Vanities,' Dies". www.nytimes.com. The New York Times.
Referensi sunting
- Bloom, Harold, ed. (2001), Tom Wolfe (Modern Critical Views), Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, ISBN 0791059162
- McKeen, William. (1995), Tom Wolfe, New York: Twayne Publishers, ISBN 080574004X
- Ragen, Brian Abel. (2002), Tom Wolfe; A Critical Companion, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313313830
- Scura, Dorothy, ed. (1990), Conversations with Tom Wolfe, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 087805426X
- Shomette, Doug, ed. (1992), The Critical Response to Tom Wolfe, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313277842
Pranala luar sunting
- Official website
- George Plimpton (Spring 1991), "Tom Wolfe, The Art of Fiction No. 123", The Paris Review.
- Article about Wolfe's recent public appearance at the Chicago Public Library from fNews (a publication of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Diarsipkan 2011-07-18 di Wayback Machine.
- "The Word According to Tom Wolfe": Episode 1 Diarsipkan 2012-02-16 di Wayback Machine., Episode 2 Diarsipkan 2012-02-16 di Wayback Machine., Episode 3 Diarsipkan 2012-02-16 di Wayback Machine., Episode 4 Diarsipkan 2008-05-13 di Wayback Machine., and Episode 5 Diarsipkan 2012-02-16 di Wayback Machine. from National Review
- The Future of the American Idea: Pell-Mell in "The Atlantic Monthly" (November 2007)
- June 2006 interview from frieze Diarsipkan 2008-02-29 di Wayback Machine.
- Tom Wolfe author page by Guardian Unlimited
- National Review 100 Best Non Fiction Books 20th Century Diarsipkan 2018-12-25 di Wayback Machine.
- Tom Wolfe's 2006 Jefferson Lecture Diarsipkan 2012-02-28 di Wayback Machine.
- Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died Diarsipkan 2009-01-22 di Wayback Machine.
- (Inggris) Karya atau profil mengenai Tom Wolfe di perpustakaan (katalog WorldCat)
- The Rich Have Feelings, Too in "Vanity Fair" (September 2009)