Culture
Tom Wolfe, Whose Journalism Struck Literary Note, Dies at 88
- A founding father of what became known as New Journalism
- He wrote ’The Right Stuff’ and ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’
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Tom Wolfe, the ice-cream-suited dandy and prose provocateur who took a new mixture of journalism and literary techniques to mind-bending heights in works such as “Radical Chic” and “The Right Stuff,” has died. He was 88.
He died Monday in a Manhattan hospital, according to the New York Times, citing his agent, Lynn Nesbit, who said Wolfe had been hospitalized with an infection. He lived in New York. Nesbit is co-founder of Janklow & Nesbit Associates literary agency in New York.