{"id":71595,"date":"2018-05-15T23:35:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T04:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71595"},"modified":"2018-05-15T23:45:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T04:45:18","slug":"author-journalist-tom-wolfe-who-had-hit-books-the-bonfire-of-the-vanities-the-right-stuff-turned-into-hollywood-movies-is-dead-at-88-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71595","title":{"rendered":"Author &#038; Journalist Tom Wolfe Who Had Hit Books The Bonfire Of The Vanities &#038; The Right Stuff Turned Into Hollywood Movies is Dead at 88 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71595\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=71595\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71596 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tom-Wolfe_sm-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tom-Wolfe_sm-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Tom-Wolfe_sm.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>By Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Wolfe, a brilliant journalist and author who wrote the best-selling masterpieces &#8220;The Bonfire of the Vanities&#8221; and &#8220;The Right Stuff&#8221; has passed away at the age of 88. Wolfe, had been hospitalized with an infection and died Monday, according to his agent Lynn Nesbit.<\/p>\n<p>Both his most famous masterpieces\u00a0&#8220;The Bonfire of the Vanities&#8221; and &#8220;The Right Stuff&#8221; were given the Hollywood treatment and turned into films.\u00a0 &#8220;The Right Stuff&#8221; was a big hit and went on to became a fan favorite to this day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report extends our condolences to the Wolfe Family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Berkwitt Tom Wolfe, a brilliant journalist and author who wrote the best-selling masterpieces &#8220;The Bonfire of the Vanities&#8221; and &#8220;The Right Stuff&#8221; has passed away at the age of 88. Wolfe, had been hospitalized with an infection and died Monday, according to his agent Lynn Nesbit. Both his most famous masterpieces\u00a0&#8220;The Bonfire of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[18019],"class_list":["post-71595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-author-journalist-tom-wolfe-who-had-hit-books-the-bonfire-of-the-vanities-the-right-stuff-turned-into-hollywood-movies-is-dead-at-88-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71595"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}