Tom Wolfe was best known as an author, journalist, and novelist.
Sadly, Wolfe died on Monday in New York City.
A few years later Wolfe published his first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, a satire of 1980s New York City in all of its greed, racism, and excess.
The book was a smash, and the film rights became one of the hottest commodities of its day.