As Tim Grierson recounts for Rolling Stone, that afternoon ultimately inspired him to report on the broader hotrod culture taking hold on both coasts. While writing for the New York Herald Tribune’s brash Sunday supplement (which would later become New York magazine), Wolfe covered a Hot Rod and Custom Car show at the now-closed Coliseum in Manhattan.
But he really began carving a space for himself in the profession when he was hired on at the New York Herald Tribune in 1962. He went on to write for a stint at the Washington Post. While earning his PhD from Yale University in American studies, Wolfe got his start as a journalist writing for Massachusetts’ Springfield Union. His major breakthrough came while reporting a story on custom cars in Southern California "Maybe it was a good thing for my family that things worked out as they did." "I think if I could have been a baseball star at Washington and Lee, I probably never would have touched a typewriter again," Wolfe told Chittum in 1999. As The New York Times’ Deirdre Carmody and William Grimes put it: “He did not make the cut.” A self-described "struggling middle reliever,” according to Matt Chittum at The Roanoke Times, Wolfe was talented enough that he earned a tryout with the New York Giants. While the English degree Wolfe earned from Washington and Lee University in 1951 would arguably serve him further in the long run, as an undergraduate he dreamed about becoming a baseball star. Here are five things to know about the late author:īefore starting his career as a journalist, he aspired to play Major League Baseball His novelistic nonfiction particularly helped expose the pluralism and peculiarities of American culture and usher in a new writing style that he called New Journalism.
Wolfe leaves behind a literary legacy that details the lives of diverse milieus, from Cuban immigrants to New York City’s elite to the hippie counterculture. Tom Wolfe, the 88-year-old journalist and best-selling author known for his immersive style, contrarian attitude and hallmark white suits, died Monday in a New York City hospital.
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