The novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe, who died on Monday ... “But then I’d read the piece and it would say, ‘What an interesting man; he wears white suits.’ And so it was a good 10 ...

“Everybody knows Tom Wolfe—writer for the New York Herald ... t have to travel too far for his accouterments: His three-piece suits (“always a vestee”) and the royal blue topcoat that ...

Tom Wolfe gave few early signs that he would become one of the most widely read and widely imitated American writers of the post-World War II era. His now-familiar trademarks—the white suits ...

Tom Wolfe loved American culture for all its excess. Groupies, doormen, hippies, astronauts, bankers and frat boys took on a magisterial presence in his writing, and if there was a hint of ...

By The Associated Press Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of ... Wolfe himself dressed for company — his trademark a pale three-piece suit, impossibly high shirt collar, two-tone shoes ...