164. Tom WOLFE (American, b. 1931) Self-portrait. ink on paper, 1975
5 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches (150 x 220 mm)
signed
Britton, p. 169
A pioneer of the New Journalism in the 1960s and 1970s, Wolfe wrote a controversial article for Esquire 1964 that was the basis for his first collection The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.
Wolfe inscribes his self-portrait, "Keep 'em flying", a possible reference to his 1979 book The Right Stuff, which won the American Book Award for nonfiction, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Harold Vursell Award for prose style, and the Columbia Journalism Award. Wolfe was honored with the Dos Passos Prize for literature from Longwood University in 1984. Wolfe's first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987.
est. $3000 – $4000