The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters | 2010 | Winner |
About This Book
Tom Wolfe's satirical masterpiece: a panoramic novel of 1980s New York in which a bond trader's hit-and-run accident in the Bronx sets off a chain of events implicating the city's racial, legal, political, and media establishments. A defining novel of the decade and one of the great American satirical novels of the twentieth century.
About the Author
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 →
