Tom Wolfe

Set in modern-day Miami, Tom Wolfe’s new novel, Back to Blood, examines race, sex, art and immigration. He is “one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed post-modern era,” wrote Time magazine. “With books like The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, he has built a towering reputation both as a journalist and as a novelist, and he does things with words—exhilarating, intoxicating, impossible things—that no other writer can do.