Probably rite.
Probably wrong, actually. He, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Susan Orlean, Joseph Mitchell, and a handful of extremely talented writers throughout the late 1960s-early 1970s changed the way we look at long-form non-fiction to this very day.
Norman Mailer, Truman Capote - the only 1s I've at least even heard of, much less know something about.