Tom Wolfe, author of numerous best sellers, including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full and, most recently, Hooking Up, will give a talk at 7:30 p.m., Monday, May 21, in Shriver Hall, Homewood campus.

This free event, at which Wolfe will receive the prestigious President's Medal, is sponsored by the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, in celebration of the group's 70th anniversary.

Wolfe graduated from Washington and Lee and received a doctorate in American studies from Yale. In December 1956, he took a job as a reporter on the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union, the beginning of a 10-year newspaper career. While a daily reporter for the Herald Tribune, he completed his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, a collection of articles about the flamboyant 1960s written for New York and Esquire and published in 1965 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book became a best seller and established Wolfe as a leading figure in the literary experiments in nonfiction that became known as the New Journalism.

Currently, Wolfe is at work on a novel about college life, due for publication this fall.

For more information, call 410-516-6732.