# Tom Wolfe has died at age 88

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-wolfe-has-died-at-age-88/814246>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-wolfe-has-died-at-age-88/814246 "2018-05-15T22:49:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-wolfe-has-died-at-age-88/814246/1 "2018-05-15T22:49:32Z")

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Whaddya bet he’ll be buried in his white suit? 🆒

> **[Tom Wolfe, 88, ‘New Journalist’ With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies...](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/obituaries/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html)**
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> He wrote “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” “Bonfire of the Vanities” and “The Right Stuff,” and pioneered a novelistic form of journalism in the 1960s and ’70s.

He wrote some terrific books. RIP.

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-wolfe-has-died-at-age-88/814246/2 "2018-05-15T22:55:55Z")

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Didn’t see the other thread; whoosh them if you wish.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-wolfe-has-died-at-age-88/814246/3 "2018-05-16T05:50:41Z")

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Closed duplicate.