Tom Wolfe
Fun Fact:
Wolfe adopted wearing a white suit as a trademark in 1962. He bought his first white suit, planning to wear it in the summer, in the style of Southern gentlemen. He found that the suit he’d bought was too heavy for summer use, so he wore it in winter, which created a sensation. At the time, white suits were supposed to be reserved for summer wear. Wolfe maintained this as a trademark. He sometimes accompanied it with a white tie, white homburg hat, and two-tone spectator shoes. Wolfe said that the outfit disarmed the people he observed, making him, in their eyes, “a man from Mars, the man who didn’t know anything and was eager to know.”
Cemetery Information:
Final Resting Place:
Hollywood Cemetery
412 South Cherry Street
Richmond, Virginia, 23220
United States
North America
Map:
Grave Location:
Section 31, Plot 261Grave Location Description
As you enter the cemetery take an immediate left onto Eastvale Avenue. Drive to the first intersection and turn right onto Freeman Avenue. Drive up the hill to the third intersection and turn left onto Clark Springs Circle driving 200 feet and then park. Walk approximately 12 graves into Section 31 on your left and look for the “W” atop the square monument to signal the final resting place of Tom Wolfe.
Grave Location GPS
37.53712974, -77.45649206Visiting The Grave:
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Read More About Tom Wolfe:
- Published Obituary
- Wikipedia Entry
- Tom Wolfe: America's Master Novelist
- How Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool‑Aid Acid Test changed my life
- The Best Revenge
- The space story that wasn't really about space: Why Tom Wolfe wrote The Right Stuff
- Remembering Tom Wolfe and The Right Stuff
- It’s Tom Wolfe Versus the ‘Three Stooges’
- Tom Wolfe calls Irving, Mailer and Updike "the Three Stooges"
- Tom Wolfe: The New Novelism
- Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full, Twenty Years On
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