From Bauhaus to Our House
Nonfiction work
By: Tom Wolfe
Date: 1981
Source: Wolfe, Tom. From Bauhaus to Our House. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981.
About the Author: Tom Wolfe (1931–) was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was educated at Washington and Lee University and earned his Ph.D. at Yale. During a ten-year journalism career, Wolfe wrote for the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union, served as Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post, and wrote for both the New York Herald Tribune and New York Magazine. In 1963, Wolfe wrote a forty-two page "memo" on a custom car show in Los Angeles for Esquire that the magazine printed in full. Eventually, that memo became his very successful first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. Considered the father of the New Journalism movement, Wolfe has published a number of...
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