NEW YORK: Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New Journalism" who exuberantly chronicled American tradition from the Merry Pranksters during the area race ahead of turning his satiric wit to such novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full", has died. He was once 88.
Wolfe died on Monday of an unspecified an infection in a New York City medical institution, his agent, Lynn Nesbit, said in a phone interview on Tuesday. Further main points were not right away to be had.
Wolfe's works - fiction and non-fiction alike - looked at realms ranging from the art international to Wall Street to 1960s hippie tradition and touched on the problems of sophistication, power, race, corruption and intercourse.
An acolyte of French novelist Emile Zola and different authors of "realistic" fiction, the stylishly-attired Wolfe was once an American maverick who insisted that the only solution to tell an excellent story was once to go out and document it. Along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, he helped exhibit that journalism could offer the types of literary pleasure present in books.
His hyperbolic, stylized writing paintings was once a gleeful fusillade of exclamation points, italics and incredible words. An inventive word maker, he helped emblem such expressions as "radical chic" for liberals' fascination with revolutionaries; and the "Me" generation, defining the self-absorbed baby boomers of the 1970s.
Wolfe was once each a literary upstart, sneering at the perceived stuffiness of the publishing status quo, and an old-school gentleman who went to the most efficient schools and inspired Michael Lewis and different more youthful writers. When attending promotional luncheons with fellow authors, he would make some extent of studying their newest paintings.
"What I hope people know about him is that he was a sweet and generous man," Lewis, known for such books as "Moneyball" and "The Big Short", said. "Not just a great writer but a great soul. He didn't just help me to become a writer. He did it with pleasure."
Wolfe's paintings broke numerous laws but was once grounded in old-school journalism, in an obsessive attention to detail that began together with his first reporting process and persevered for decades. "Nothing fuels the imagination more than real facts do," he said in 1999. "As the saying goes, 'You can't make this stuff up.'" He lived in New York together with his spouse, Sheila. He had two youngsters.
Wolfe died on Monday of an unspecified an infection in a New York City medical institution, his agent, Lynn Nesbit, said in a phone interview on Tuesday. Further main points were not right away to be had.
Wolfe's works - fiction and non-fiction alike - looked at realms ranging from the art international to Wall Street to 1960s hippie tradition and touched on the problems of sophistication, power, race, corruption and intercourse.
An acolyte of French novelist Emile Zola and different authors of "realistic" fiction, the stylishly-attired Wolfe was once an American maverick who insisted that the only solution to tell an excellent story was once to go out and document it. Along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, he helped exhibit that journalism could offer the types of literary pleasure present in books.
His hyperbolic, stylized writing paintings was once a gleeful fusillade of exclamation points, italics and incredible words. An inventive word maker, he helped emblem such expressions as "radical chic" for liberals' fascination with revolutionaries; and the "Me" generation, defining the self-absorbed baby boomers of the 1970s.
Wolfe was once each a literary upstart, sneering at the perceived stuffiness of the publishing status quo, and an old-school gentleman who went to the most efficient schools and inspired Michael Lewis and different more youthful writers. When attending promotional luncheons with fellow authors, he would make some extent of studying their newest paintings.
"What I hope people know about him is that he was a sweet and generous man," Lewis, known for such books as "Moneyball" and "The Big Short", said. "Not just a great writer but a great soul. He didn't just help me to become a writer. He did it with pleasure."
Wolfe's paintings broke numerous laws but was once grounded in old-school journalism, in an obsessive attention to detail that began together with his first reporting process and persevered for decades. "Nothing fuels the imagination more than real facts do," he said in 1999. "As the saying goes, 'You can't make this stuff up.'" He lived in New York together with his spouse, Sheila. He had two youngsters.
The wizard of 'New Journalism' Tom Wolfe dies at 88
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May 16, 2018
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