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For the contemporary author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written during the Great Depression, depict the variety and diversity of American culture. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1032x1536, 223 KB) Thomas Wolfe, 1937 Photo by Carl Van Vechten Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-42508 DLC (b&w film copy neg. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1032x1536, 223 KB) Thomas Wolfe, 1937 Photo by Carl Van Vechten Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LC-USZ62-42508 DLC (b&w film copy neg. ... Photographic self-portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... For music albums named Autobiography, see Greek eauton = self, bios = life and graphein = write) is a form of biography, the writing of a life story. ... The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 (although its effects were not fully felt until late 1930) and lasted through most of the 1930s. ...

Biography

A native of Asheville, North Carolina, he studied at the University of North Carolina, he was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Also, he was a member of the UNC Dialectic Society, acted with the Carolina Playmakers, and received his Masters in playwriting at Harvard University. Unable to sell any of his plays, Wolfe found his writing style was more suited to fiction than to the stage. He took a temporary job teaching at New York University, but left after a year for Europe to continue writing. On his return voyage in 1925, he met the married Aline Bernstein who was twenty years his senior. They soon began a turbulent and sometimes combative affair. He dedicated his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, to Bernstein. Soon after its publication, he fled to Europe once more, thereby ending his affair. Asheville City Hall. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfes first novel. ...

Look Homeward, Angel is the edited version of Wolfe's original novel O Lost, which was over a hundred pages longer and considerably more experimental in character. The editing was done by Maxwell Perkins, the most prominent book editor of the time, who also worked with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Initially, Wolfe was grateful for the extreme editing conditions he worked under with Perkins at Scribner's. However, the second novel Wolfe submitted to Scribner's was The October Fair, a multi-volume epic roughly the length of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Perkins, after considering the commercial possibilities of releasing the book in full, opted to cut it down extremely and to create a single, best-seller-sized volume, which would be called Of Time and the River. Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfes first novel. ... Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947) was the famous editor of novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and others, at the publisher Charles Scribners Sons during the first half of the 20th Century. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. ... Proust redirects here. ... In Search of Lost Time (fr. ...

The painful editing led Wolfe to abandon Perkins and Scribner's, and to switch publishers to Harper and Row. However, on a 1937 trip to the West, Wolfe was stricken with pneumonia. Complications arose, and he eventually was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the brain. He was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital, but the attempt at a life-saving operation revealed the disease had overrun the entire right side of his brain. He died three days later, never regaining consciousness. 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article deals with the western United States. ... It has been suggested that CURB-65 be merged into this article or section. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. ...

After his death, two further novels, The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again were published posthumously, editorially mined out of the October Fair manuscript by Edward As well of Harper and Row. You Cant Go Home Again is an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica televison series. ...

Recently, O Lost, the original "author's cut" of Look Homeward, Angel, has been reconstructed by Matthew Bruccoli and published. Unfortunately, the October Fair manuscript was so scattered among editors during their various operations upon it, that it cannot be reconstructed, and readers will never know what Wolfe intended for that immense work. Look Homeward, Angel is Thomas Wolfes first novel. ... Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (born 1931) is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, USA. He is a noted excerpt on writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. ...

After Wolfe's death, William Faulkner, considered by many to be the best writer of the Lost Generation-era, said that Wolfe was his generation's best writer; Faulkner listed himself as second. Wolfe's influence extends to the writings of famous Beat writer Jack Kerouac, and he remains one of the most important writers in modern American literature. William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize winning novelist from Mississippi. ... The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. ... Jack Kerouac (pronounced ) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation. ...

Trivia

• When he was 15 years old, Thomas Wolfe was a batboy for the Asheville Tourists minor league baseball club.[1]
• Wolfe's mother ran a boarding house in Asheville, and his father was a tombstone carver.
• Mrs. Wolfe chose to keep Tom in very long (and very effeminate) curls while a boy. After a great deal of teasing from fellow classmates, he eventually caught lice during an outbreak at school when he was eight years old, forcing his mother to shave off his boyish locks.

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Bibliography

• Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
• Of Time and the River (1935)
• From Death to Morning (1935)
• The Story of a Novel (1936)
• The Web and the Rock (1939)
• You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
• The Hills Beyond (1941)
• A Western Journal: A Daily Log of the Great Parks Trip, June 20-July 2, 1938 (1951)
• Letters (1956)
• The Mountains: A Play in One Act; The Mountains: A Drama in Three Acts and a Prologue (1970)
• Welcome to our City: A Play in Ten Scenes (1983)
• Mannerhouse: A Play in a Prologue and Four Acts (1985)

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Further reading

• Donald, David (2002). Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00869-3.

External links

• The Thomas Wolfe Web Site
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial
• The Thomas Wolfe Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1985 audio interview of Duane Schneider, founder of The Wolfe Society, RealAudio
• Thomas Wolfe's Gravesite