Further Reading
- Additional coverage of Wolfe's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Bestsellers, 1989, Issue 1; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13–16R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 9, 33, and 70; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 152 and 185; DISCovering Authors 3.0; DISCovering Authors: Popular Fiction and Genre Authors Module; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th Century Writers, Editions 1 and 2.
- Edwards, Brian. “Wolfe's Bonfire and Barth's Tidewater: An Essay in Cultural Politics,” Australian Journal of American Studies 10, No. 1 (July 1991): 31–38. (Edwards analyzes the effect that cultural context has on literary works, specifically Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and John Barth's The Tidewater Tales.)
- Grunwald, Lisa. “Tom Wolfe Aloft in the Status Sphere,” Esquire 114, No. 4 (October 1990): 146–54. (Grunwald profiles Wolfe's career and discusses the importance that Wolfe places on status in society today.)
- Updike, John. “AWRIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHHT! Tom Wolfe Looks Hard at America,” New Yorker 74, No. 34 (9 November 1998): 99–102. (In this review of A Man in Full, Updike calls the work a “brave, flamboyant effort,” but ultimately faults the book for “trying too hard to please us.”)
- “Atlanta Burnt Again,” Economist 349, No. 8093 (7 November 1998): 89. (This review of Wolfe's A Man in Full compares the novel to Wolfe's earlier The Bonfire of the Vanities, calling it “equally good.”)
- “Tom Wolfe throws down a glove: Back to Reality,” Economist 313 (11 November 1989): 111–12. (This essay discusses Wolfe's “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,” and how it relates to his “literary manifesto for the new social novel.”)
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