![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was instantly recognizable 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. Wolfe, beginning in the 1960s, helped create the enormously influential hybrid known as the New Journalism.īut as an unabashed contrarian, he was almost as well known for his attire as his satire. ![]() In his use of novelistic techniques in his nonfiction, Mr. He had lived in New York since joining The New York Herald Tribune as a reporter in 1962. Wolfe had been hospitalized with an infection. His death was confirmed by his agent, Lynn Nesbit, who said Mr. 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. ![]()
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