TOM WOLFE - WOLFE CHANGES PUBLISHER AFTER 40 YEARS

WOLFE CHANGES PUBLISHER AFTER 40 YEARS

BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES author TOM WOLFE has ended a 40-year relationship with his publishing company, after a row over the advance for his latest novel. Wolfe wasn't happy with the cash sum Farrar, Straus + Giroux offered him for his new book Back to Blood - the result of disappointing sales for his last effort I Am Charlotte Simmons. And now he has secured a new deal with Little, Brown to release Back to Blood - about "class, family, wealth, race, crime, sex, corruption and ambition". Wolfe's agent Lynn Nesbit tells the New York Daily News the split was "not at all acrimonious".