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Iconic American Author Tom Wolfe Dead at 88

Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full,” has died. He was 88.

In this July 26, 2016 photo, American author and journalist Tom Wolfe, Jr. appears in his