“So the doors close and the walls go up!” he wrote in his 1989 literary manifesto, Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast.
Wolfe scorned the reluctance of American writers to confront social issues and warned that self-absorption and master’s programs would kill the novel. He didn’t just help me to become a writer. “Not just a great writer but a great soul. “What I hope people know about him is that he was a sweet and generous man,” Lewis, known for such books as Moneyballand The Big Short, told the AP in an email Tuesday.
When attending promotional luncheons with fellow authors, he would make a point of reading their latest work. Wolfe was both a literary upstart, sneering at the perceived stuffiness of the publishing establishment, and an old-school gentleman who went to the best schools and encouraged Michael Lewis and other younger writers. An ingenious phrase maker, he helped brand such expressions as “radical chic” for rich liberals’ fascination with revolutionaries and the “Me” generation, defining the self-absorbed baby boomers of the 1970s. His hyperbolic, stylized writing work was a gleeful fusillade of exclamation points, italics and improbable words. He is survived by his wife, Sheila, and two children Tommy and Alexandra.Peter Simonischek, Austrian Actor and Star of 'Toni Erdmann,' Dies at 76 Wolfe was well-known for being a stylish dresser, often photographed in his trademark white suit. In 1979, he published 'The Right Stuff', a portrait of American heroism, viewed through the exploits of military test pilots and astronauts known as the Mercury Seven, which was made into a successful movie in 1983. 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' (1968) chronicled the rise of the hippy generation, while 'Radical Chic' (1970) mocked the pretensions of Manhattan liberals and 'The Painted Word' (1975) those of the art world. In a career spanning more than half a century, Wolfe wrote fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, starting with 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby' (1965). Published in 1987, it became one of the best-selling books of the decade and has often been called the quintessential novel of the era.Ī film based on the book was a critical and commercial flop - despite starring the likes of stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith and Kim Cattrall. His most famous work was his bestseller 'Bonfire of the Vanities' - an epic satire on social class, ambition, racism, politics and greed in 1980s New York. He believed that the only way to tell a great story was to go out and report it. As a reporter, Wolfe became part of the 'new journalism' movement of the 1960s and 70s, which featured the likes of Truman Capote, Hunter S Thompson and Norman Mailer.
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