Tom Wolfe, 88, ‘New Journalist’ With Electric Style and Acid Pen, Dies - The New York Times

"As a titlist of flamboyance he is without peer in the Western world," Joseph Epstein wrote in the The New Republic. "His prose style is normally shotgun baroque, sometimes edging over into machine-gun rococo, as in his article on Las Vegas which begins by repeating the word ‘hernia' 57 times."

William F. Buckley Jr., writing in National Review, put it more simply: "He is probably the most skillful writer in America - I mean by that he can do more things with words than anyone else."