Celebrity Death: Tom Wolfe, author of 'Bonfire of the Vanities' dead at 88

[Jumptheshark]

Tom Wolfe, author of ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ dead at 88

Bibliography[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

• The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
• The Pump House Gang (1968)
• Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)
• The New Journalism (1973) (Ed. with EW Johnson)
• The Painted Word (1975)
• Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)
• The Right Stuff (1979)
• In Our Time (1980)
• From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)
• The Purple Decades (1982)
• Hooking Up (2000)
• The Kingdom of Speech (2016)

Novels[edit]

• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
• A Man in Full (1998)
• I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
• Back to Blood (2012)

While his epitaph reads for Bonfires(due to the bad movie) he actually had a respected career writing

He was a founding member of "new journalism" but did not get the same press that Hunter S Thompson did--both are considered the founders of New Journalism in the 60's when reporting on the modern times

while his 60's stuff was great he went on to write "the right stuff" about the early days of NASA

while he later became a character himself, his non fiction book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was a must read for nearly 30 years

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[Dont Toews Me Bro]

Thoughts and prayers. Gone too soon.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Thoughts and prayers. Gone too soon.

What age would you consider that an individual would be gone too late? He was 88. Frankly, I thought he was already dead.

 

[Dont Toews Me Bro]

What age would you consider that an individual would be gone too late? He was 88. Frankly, I thought he was already dead.

Depends who. Some celebrities can't die soon enough. Others were called home much too soon.

 

[kihei]

His first several non-fiction works were revolutionary. I get the sense he lost the thread after that (I never liked his fiction much which, I thought, too often strained to be trendy), but he was a game changer in his youth.

 

[Jumptheshark]

His first several non-fiction works were revolutionary. I get the sense he lost the thread after that (I never liked his fiction much which, I thought, too often strained to be trendy), but he was a game changer in his youth.

Considered the Godfather of new journalism --because he was not as crazy as Hunter S Thompson some do not realize how influential he was