The author was known for his signature white suit—a look that came about by accident. "It has done me so much good," he said of the style.

Author Tom Wolfe would have been just as brilliant without the white suit, but he would not have been nearly as interesting. His fashion harked to the past while his prose immersed us in the present.

Tom Wolfe Dies and Exchanges His Trademark White Suit for ... Wolfe decided ’70s Radical Chic was the favorite of his books—and what’s not to love about Lenny ... “God,” Thomas Wolfe ...

His white suit unsullied by research, Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky August 31, 2016 More than 8 years ago Where did language come from?

Author Tom Wolfe, known for his ... Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was born in Richmond, Va., on March 2, 1931. ... he talked about being depressed and foregoing the white suit.

Author Tom Wolfe lectures at Fordham University in February 2005. ... Journalist and novelist Thomas Wolfe in his usual white suit in 1980. (Evening Standard / Getty Images) By Thomas Curwen .

He couldn't afford a dark suit when he was younger. It's a great read on the legendary author of The Right Stuff, Bonfire of The Vanities, and many other books.. Wolfe is a bit of eccentric.

“Everybody knows Tom Wolfe—writer for the New York Herald Tribune, author of The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” wrote Vogue in 1966. “But seeing is believing he’s also a ...

Tom Wolfe would have been just as brilliant without the white suit, but he would not have been nearly as interesting. His fashion harked to the past while his prose immersed us in the present.

The novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe, who died on Monday at age 88, will be remembered for his impact on the development of the New Journalism, his inimitable — though oft-imitated — writing ...

Tom Wolfe, journalist and "Bonfire of the Vanities" author, passed away Monday. Everyone from Noam Chomsky to Nora Ephron had opinions about him.

Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such ...