Picturing the amazing life of the writer Tom Wolfe, who has died aged 88. He was a great dandy, both in his elaborate dress and his neon-lit prose. Although he was in his late 50s when he became a bestselling novelist, with The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987, he had been famous as a journalist since the mid-1960s to the point of international celebrity.

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Tom Wolfe in July 1965 when he was writer for the New York Herald Tribune
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Tom Wolfe pictured in his signature white suit and shoes on a street corner in New York in 1968.
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Tom Wolfe pictured with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia (c) and their manager Rock Scully on the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco
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Tom Wolfe during a portrait session in his New York home in January 1988
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Tom Wolfe, pictured here in 1988, is best known for his novel Bonfire of the Vanities and his journalistic work The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Tom Wolfe at home
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Pictured in 1996 with the writer Hunter S Thompson at the 25th anniversary party of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Tom Wolfe pictured with his typewriter in 2000
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Tom Wolfe receives a National Endowment for the Arts National medal from President George W Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush, in April 2002
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An image of Tom Wolfe released by his publishers Little, Brown and Company in 2012
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