Research Catalog

Title

Tom Wolfe papers, 1930-2016 (bulk 1960-1998).

Author

Wolfe, Tom.

Supplementary Content

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Additional Authors

• Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008.
• Dietz, Lawrence.
• Lish, Gordon.
• Strachan, Patricia.
• Straus, Roger W. (Roger Williams), 1917-2004.
• Thompson, Hunter S.
• Tyrrell, R. Emmett.
• Van Petten, O. W.
• Wenner, Jann.
• Wong, Kailey.

Description

98.03 linear feet (236 boxes, 1 volume, 4 oversize folders, 8 audio files)

Summary

Tom Wolfe is an American author and journalist known for such works as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities. He is credited with reviving the social realism genre in fiction and is a pioneer of the New Journalism. The Tom Wolfe papers, dated 1930 to 2016, comprehensively document Wolfe's career, providing insight into his writing process and the development of his signature style; the professional relationships he maintained with editors, writers, and cultural critics; his social life in New York City; and readers' responses to his published work. The collection includes draft manuscripts, outlines, research files, correspondence, lectures, photographs, and drawings.

Subjects

• Nonfiction novel
• Drawings (visual works)
• Lectures
• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century
• American literature > 20th century
• Authors, American > 20th century
• Shorthand
• Manuscripts (document genre)
• Journalism > United States
• Social realism in literature
• Sketches
• Journalists > United States
• Screenplays
• Authors and publishers
• Authors > United States
• Manuscripts for publication
• Authors and readers
• Sound recordings
• Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
• Scripts (documents)
• Research notes
• Photographs
• Galley proofs

Genre/Form

• Drawings (visual works)
• Galley proofs.
• Lectures.
• Manuscripts (document genre)
• Manuscripts for publication.
• Photographs.
• Research notes.
• Screenplays.
• Scripts (documents)
• Shorthand.
• Sketches.
• Sound recordings.

Access (note)

• Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref. Some files from Series I and Series V are closed until 2034 and 2039 per seller agreement.

Source (note)

• Purchased from Tom Wolfe, 2014. Additions donated by Sheila Wolfe, 2019

Call Number

MssCol 22833

OCLC

901573922

Author

Wolfe, Tom.

Title

Tom Wolfe papers, 1930-2016 (bulk 1960-1998).

Restricted Access

Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref. Some files from Series I and Series V are closed until 2034 and 2039 per seller agreement.

Source

Purchased from Tom Wolfe, 2014. Additions donated by Sheila Wolfe, 2019

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Occupation

Authors United States.

Journalists United States.

Added Author

Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008.

Dietz, Lawrence.

Lish, Gordon.

Strachan, Patricia.

Straus, Roger W. (Roger Williams), 1917-2004.

Thompson, Hunter S.

Tyrrell, R. Emmett.

Van Petten, O. W.

Wenner, Jann.

Wong, Kailey.

Research Call Number

MssCol 22833