Editing Tom Wolfe (section)

==Death and legacy==
Wolfe died from an infection in [[Manhattan]] on May 14, 2018, at the age of 88.<ref name = "TimesObit" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/tom-wolfe-death-author-death-bonfire-vanities-right-stuff-kool-aid-ken-kesey-a8352771.html|title=Tom Wolfe, author of 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' and 'The Right Stuff', dies aged 87|date=May 15, 2018|website=independent.co.uk}}</ref>

The historian Meredith Hindley credits Wolfe with introducing the terms "statusphere", "the right stuff", "[[radical chic]]", "[["me" decade|the Me Decade]]" and "good ol' boy" into the [[English language|English lexicon]].<ref>[http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/wolfe/biography.html Tom Wolfe — Jefferson Lecturer Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114144945/http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/wolfe/biography.html |date=January 14, 2012 }}, Meredith Hindley, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006</ref>

Wolfe was at times incorrectly credited with coining the term "[[trophy wife]]". His term for extremely thin women in his novel ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'' was "social X-rays".<ref>{{cite news| url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E6DA1031F932A35756C0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |title= On language; Trophy Wife| author-link= William Safire| first= William | last= Safire| work= The New York Times| date= May 1, 1994}}</ref>

According to journalism professor [[Ben Yagoda]], Wolfe is also responsible for the use of the [[present tense]] in magazine profile pieces; before he began doing so in the early 1960s, profile articles had always been written in the [[past tense]].<ref>{{cite book| title= When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It| first= Ben| last= Yagoda| author-link= Ben Yagoda| year= 2007| page= [https://archive.org/details/whenyoucatchadje00yago/page/228 228]| publisher= Broadway Books| isbn= 9780767920773| url= https://archive.org/details/whenyoucatchadje00yago| url-access= registration}}</ref>

Wolfe is the subject of the 2023 documentary film ''[[Radical Wolfe]]''. The film was based on a 2015 article by [[Michael Lewis]] and directed by Richard Dewey. The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' described it as "a sprightly look at what made the reporter-trained Wolfe into the insider's outsider, how he made the leap to explicating — in supercharged, acrobatic sentences — our fast-changing, roving world of cliques, castes and subgroups".<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=September 23, 2023 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-09-23/radical-wolfe-review-tom-wolfe-bonfire-of-the-vanities-right-stuff |title=Review: In 'Radical Wolfe,' a New Journalism lion roars on page, while his life is quieter |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=December 26, 2024 }}</ref>