The original Wolfe of Wall Street

The great novelist of finance has died. His craft is the poorer for his demise.

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Tom Wolfe: "a distinguished dandy"
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Just as cricket was never the same when they started replacing "gentlemen" with "players", so journalism has been ruined by an influx of teeny-boppers with smartphones. There are still some true practitioners of the journalistic craft alive, though sadly one fewer following the recent death of Tom Wolfe. Not merely an outstanding journalist, historian or writer, he was "a superstar in all three", as Mark Lawson says in The Guardian.

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