Tom Wolfe – a life in pictures
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 in 1987, he had been famous as a journalist since the mid-1960s to the point of international celebrity
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Tom Wolfe in July 1965 when he was writer for the New York Herald Tribune
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
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Tom Wolfe pictured in his signature white suit and shoes on a street corner in New York in 1968.
Photograph: Sam Falk/Getty Images
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Tom Wolfe pictured with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia (c) and their manager Rock Scully on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco
Photograph: Ted Streshinsky/Corbis via Getty Images
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Tom Wolfe during a portrait session in his New York home in January 1988
Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images
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Tom Wolfe, pictured here in 1988, is best known for his novel Bonfire of the Vanities and his journalistic work The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Tom Wolfe at home
Photograph: Corbis/VCG via Getty Images
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Pictured in 1996 with the writer Hunter S Thompson at the 25th anniversary party of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
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Tom Wolfe pictured with his typewriter in 2000
Photograph: Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images
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Tom Wolfe receives a National Endowment for the Arts National medal from President George W Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush, in April 2002
Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
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Tom Wolfe makes a speech during an event in the East Room of the White House in March 2004
Photograph: Mike Theiler/EPA
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The writer is interviewed in his Upper East Side apartment in October 2004
Photograph: David Corio/Getty Images
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Tom Wolfe attends a signing event for his book I Am Charlotte Simmons in Brentwood, California, in November 2004
Photograph: Karl Walter/Getty Images
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Tom Wolfe and his wife, Shelia, attend a benefit event at the New York Public Library in November 2007
Photograph: Patrick McMullan/via Getty Images
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An image of Tom Wolfe released by his publishers Little, Brown and Company in 2012
Photograph: Mark Seliger/AP
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Tom Wolfe poses during an event promoting his book Bloody Miami in Barcelona in December 2013
Photograph: Marta Perez/EPA
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Tom Wolfe attends a library lunch in New York in April 2016
Photograph: Aria Isadora/BFA/REX/Shutterstock
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Tom Wolfe pictured in his living room during an interview about his book The Kingdom of Speech
Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP
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During a photo shoot in New York in October 2016
Photograph: Dan Callister/REX/Shutterstock
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Wolfe attends the New York Academy of the Arts’s Take Home A Nude event at Sotheby’s in October 2015
Photograph: Joe Schildhorn/BFA/REX/Shutterstock
