![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This being Data Sheet, it may shock you to know that Wolfe also wrote one of the best magazine feature stories every published about Silicon Valley. His Bonfire of the Vanities recorded an era, the 1980s on Wall Street, as well as any writer ever will. He excelled at literary criticism, cultural and political portraits, and then, as if there was nothing left to achieve, fiction. There may be no better example of the genre than The Right Stuff, Wolfe's meticulously researched and entertainingly told tale of the early American astronauts and the daring test pilot, Chuck Yeager, who never joined their ranks. Wolfe, who died Tuesday at age 88, was a lion of 20th century journalism, a hard-working, creative, brilliant writer, and a colorful character in his own right. ![]() Journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe was one of the finest practitioners of narrative nonfiction ever to write in English. If you're fortunate enough to practice a craft and to achieve some modest success at it, and if you have even a modicum of humility, then you're hyper aware of the giants of your field, the people whose least impressive effort is better than you'll ever accomplish. This article first appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. ![]()
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