Tom wolfe

Friends and colleagues remember the whiz-bang prose stylist and impeccable Southern gentleman, who died May 14 at age 88

The writer Tom Wolfe, who has died aged 88, was a great dandy, both in his elaborate dress and his neon-lit prose. Although he was in his late 50s when he became a bestselling novelist, with The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987, he had been famous as a journalist since the mid-1960s to the point of international celebrity

NEW YORK — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to

Talking With Tom Wolfe - 1977 - an interview with the legendary Studs Terkel from a broadcast in 1977. Memorable writing - memorable interview.

Alexandra Wolfe remembers her father, Tom Wolfe, a perfect Southern gentleman who always seemed to be butting heads with the literary establishment.

Tom Wolfe, beat-reporter for the New York Herald, writer for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Harper’s and the Weekend Telegraph, light of the ‘New Journalism’, satirist, writer of the terrific The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and best-seller Bonfire of the Vanities, self-promoting dapper man in the white suit has died. Joseph Epstein writes in his profile of Wolfe in … Continue reading "The Late Tom Wolfe and the Hunter S. Thompson Letters"

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The “Bonfire of the Vanities” author passed away in Manhattan on Monday at age 87.