Tom Wolfe the Keynote Speaker for NAS Conference 2013

Crystal Plum

We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for NAS's 2013 conference will be best-selling author and journalist Tom Wolfe.

Tom Wolfe first came to national attention in the 1960s as one of the proponents of the “New Journalism,” in which the writer employs literary techniques to report on actual events in precise and accurate detail. His works in this mode include The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1967), and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970).

His book on the growth of America’s space program and the Project Mercury astronauts, The Right Stuff (1975), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Book Award for 1979. His other books include the hugely successful Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), A Man in Full (1998), and he casts his uncannily accurate eye over higher education in I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004). Wolfe’s newest novel, Back to Blood (2012), is set in modern-day Miami.

In 2008, Academic Questions editor-at-large Carol Iannone interviewed Mr. Wolfe about his views on the contemporary university, feminism, and the state of the modern novel. Read the interview: “A Critic in Full: A Conversation with Tom Wolfe” >

To hear Tom Wolfe, remember to save the date for NAS’s 25th anniversary celebration (online registration coming soon):

A Mighty Maze: Charting the Future of American Higher Education

March 1-2, 2013
Harvard Club
27 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036

  • Share

Most Commented

November 20, 2024

1.

NAS Welcomes Administrator McMahon's Nomination to Serve as Education Secretary

With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....

November 19, 2024

2.

Lee Zeldin Should Reform EPA Science Policy

NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....

October 29, 2024

3.

The Looming Irrelevance of Middle East Study Centers

Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....

Most Read

May 15, 2015

1.

Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

October 12, 2010

2.

Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...

September 21, 2010

3.

Ask a Scholar: What Does YHWH Elohim Mean?

A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....