n. A book — or, more generally, a literary genre — that examines the lifestyles of rich and famous people.
1995
MAGAZINES: Only work-related. Used to inhale homemaking/interiors plutography but now too peripatetic to make dream-houses a realistic prospect.
1988
This passion for art collecting, like empire building, is a part of "the money fever of the 1980s, which has penetrated every level of New York society," novelist Tom Wolfe said the other night at the Manhattan Institute dinner. "It is the age of plutography, where the acts of the rich turn them into great stars."
1988 (earliest)
Moviegoers throng to see Wall Street, director Oliver Stone's cinematic expose of the corrupt world of insider trading. Bookstores display a growing number of works on business and a bumper crop of "plutographies" — biographies of wealthy, hot-shot executives.
Plutography combines the prefix pluto- (from the Greek word ploutos, "wealth") with the suffix -graphy (from the Greek verb graphein, "to write").