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Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was the author of more than a dozen books, among them The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons and Back to Blood. He received the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.Tom Wolfe’, article: ‘You only had to look at him… or read such books as <i>The Bonfire of the Vanities </i>and <i>The Right Stuff </i>to know that Tom Wolfe was like no other
- John Pye, The Scotsman
The hero you couldn’t hope to emulate’, article: ‘Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence
- Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph
Effortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction… a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory
- Andy Martin, Independent
[Tom Wolfe’s] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists
Guardian
[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don’t like fun
- Freddy Gray, The Catholic Herald