NYT: Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 87
He wrote “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” “Bonfire of the Vanities” and “The Right Stuff,” and pioneered the New Journalism of the 1960s and ’70s.
Though Wolfe was known mainly for his best-selling novels, he was a journalist at heart and truly appreciated the value of nonfiction. Wolfe believed that nonfiction and journalism had “wiped out the novel as American literature’s main event.”
