And where does that style come from?

… Tom Wolfe, American Original — With Influences – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 . . . innovations always have some ancestor or ancestors, however indirect. (Or do they? Correct me if you have in mind a pure original.)  And I’ve been musing on some of Tom Wolfe’s literary forebears. With one exception, the ones on my mind all come from fiction — not surprising, considering that Wolfe championed journalism as a literary form.