Journalist, author Tom Wolfe dies at 88
May 15, 2018 23:25
Tom Wolfe, the innovative journalist and author who wrote such best-selling masterpieces as Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff has passed away, CNN reported.
Wolfe, 87, had been hospitalized with an infection according to his agent Lynn Nesbit, who confirmed his passing.
The New York Times wrote for Wolfe, 'In his use of novelistic techniques in his nonfiction, Mr Wolfe, beginning in the 1960s, helped create the enormously influential hybrid known as the New Journalism.
'But as an unabashed contrarian, he was almost as well known for his attire as his satire. He was instantly recognisable as he strolled down Madison Avenue -- a tall, slender, blue-eyed, still boyish-looking man in his spotless three-piece vanilla bespoke suit, pinstriped silk shirt with a starched white high collar, bright handkerchief peeking from his breast pocket, watch on a fob, faux spats and white shoes.' -- Agencies
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons
Wolfe, 87, had been hospitalized with an infection according to his agent Lynn Nesbit, who confirmed his passing.
The New York Times wrote for Wolfe, 'In his use of novelistic techniques in his nonfiction, Mr Wolfe, beginning in the 1960s, helped create the enormously influential hybrid known as the New Journalism.
'But as an unabashed contrarian, he was almost as well known for his attire as his satire. He was instantly recognisable as he strolled down Madison Avenue -- a tall, slender, blue-eyed, still boyish-looking man in his spotless three-piece vanilla bespoke suit, pinstriped silk shirt with a starched white high collar, bright handkerchief peeking from his breast pocket, watch on a fob, faux spats and white shoes.' -- Agencies
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons
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