The writer Tom Wolfe, who has died aged 88,
was a great dandy, both in his elaborate dress and his neon-lit prose.
Although he was in his late 50s when he became a bestselling novelist,
with The Bonfire of the Vanities
(1987), some 30 years before that he was already famous as a
journalist, was indeed that extremely rare thing, the journalist as
international celebrity.
It was a part Wolfe played up to, wearing showy tailor-made white suits,
summer and winter, as well as fancy headgear and shirts with detachable
collars. The overall impression was of a fashionplate from a bygone
age. The sartorial fireworks fitted in very well with the highly
eccentric literary style Wolfe used and which made such a name for him
when he published The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
(1965), which brought the world the first news of the 1960s
counterculture in California. ... [mehr] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/15/tom-wolfe-obituary
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