He was the self-imagined "master of the universe" in Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities.

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In The Bonfire of the Vanities, the composite characters that Tom Wolfe painted so vividly in his novel were oversimplified and uninspiring on screen.

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The 79-year-old author of The Bonfire of the Vanities sang a few lines from The Girl of Ipanema as he collected his honour on Wednesday.

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It was the time of the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Along with Tom Wolfe, who wrote The Bonfire of the Vanities, Lewis shot and mounted the whole of Wall Street--when it was big, swinging Wall Street--between book covers.

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Writing "The Bonfire of the Vanities" as a serialized novel for Rolling Stone in the 1980s, Tom Wolfe had to produce 6, 000 words every two weeks for more than two years, a grueling schedule that Mr. Wolfe later said he would never undertake again.

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Hansen, the man who lit the bonfire of the global warming vanities way back in 1988.

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Bonfire of the Vanities is my favorite novel, followed closely by A Man in Full.

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