Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor,
wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California
surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan’s moneyed
status-seekers in works like The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake
Streamline Baby, The Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities, died
on Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 88.
His death was confirmed by his agent, Lynn Nesbit, who said Mr. Wolfe
had been hospitalized with an infection. He had lived in New York since
joining The New York Herald Tribune as a reporter in 1962.
READ the NYT obituary HERE.
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