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'Right Stuff,' 'Bonfire' Author Tom Wolfe Dead at 87

by Reuters

   Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of "new journalism" who captured the
   mood and culture of America across five decades with books including
   "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," "The Right Stuff" and "The Bonfire
   of the Vanities," died
   on Tuesday at the age of 87, his agent said.

   Wolfe, who had a knack for coining phrases such as "radical chic" and
   "the me decade," died of an unspecified infection in a New York City
   hospital on Monday, his agent, Lynn Nesbit, said in a phone interview.