(born 1931), US writer; born Thomas Kennerley Wolfe Jr. Having been a Washington journalist, he examined contemporary American culture in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) and the novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1988).
Definition of Wolfe, Tom in US English:
Wolfe, Tom
proper nounwo͝olfwʊlf
(born 1931), US writer; full name Thomas Kennerley Wolfe, Jr. Having been a news reporter for the Washington Post 1959–62 and the Herald Tribune 1962–66, he examined contemporary culture in the US in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1988), and A Man in Full (1998).