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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Wolfe gave few early signs that he would become one of the most widely read and widely imitated American writers of the post-World War II era. His now-familiar trademarks—the white suits ...

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was born in Richmond, Va., on March 2, 1931. Magnolia-lined streets, his neighbors’ accent and his mother’s mint tea gave his childhood a genteel, decidedly Southern air.

Author Tom Wolfe in his New York apartment on Nov. 12, 1998. Tom Wolfe at the Stanhope Hotel in New York on Nov. 2, 2004. Journalist and novelist Thomas Wolfe in his usual white suit in 1980.

“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 ...

For decades, Wolfe had been known for wearing an outfit TIME once described as “a trademark white suit and vest, a high-necked blue-and-white-striped shirt complemented by a creamy silk necktie ...

Tom Wolfe, who authored dozens of articles and books spanning more than half a century, died in Manhattan Monday. The dapper Wolfe, known for his signature white suit, was one of the founders of ...

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. His calling card is wearing white suits.

Wolfe is often overlooked as a counter-intellectual because his method was not polemic but devastating, irresistible satire. He was Jonathan Swift in a white suit.