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    Tom Wolfe, Best-Selling Author And Genre-Breaking Journalist, Dies At 88

    The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff used to give himself a quota of 10 triple-spaced pages per day. He also experimented with literary techniques in his nonfiction.
    by Tom Vitale May 15, 2018 3 minutes
    Novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe believed that techniques for fiction and nonfiction should be interchangeable. "The things that work in nonfiction would work in fiction, and vice versa," he said.

    In a career that spanned more than half a century, Tom Wolfe wrote fiction and nonfiction best-sellers including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Along the way, he created a new type of journalism and coined phrases that became part of the American lexicon. Wolfe died Monday in Manhattan. He was 88.

    Wolfe didn't start a novel with a character or a plot, but rather, with an idea. In 1987, wearing

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