(born 1931) Wolfe came into prominence in the 1960s as a young, particularly passionate exponent of the “New Journalism.” In 1972 Wolfe wrote a now-famous piece for New York magazine propounding New Journalistic principles and declaring the traditional novel dead. Ironically Wolfe would later write a bestselling novel on yuppie New York, Bonfire of the Vanities (1987). Often writing in a coolly detached voice, Wolfe’s singular genius has been to capture the spirit of a time or place in a single work (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968) or even a phrase, such as the term “radical chic” to describe the romance between well-heeled liberals and militant revolutionaries in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A number of Wolfe’s books have become Hollywood movies, including Bonfire and The Right Stuff (1994), exploring the first generation of American astronauts.