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Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900–1938) was an American novelist celebrated for his expansive, poetic, and deeply autobiographical fiction that vividly captures the emotional and social pulse of early 20t...view moreThomas Clayton Wolfe (1900–1938) was an American novelist celebrated for his expansive, poetic, and deeply autobiographical fiction that vividly captures the emotional and social pulse of early 20th-century America. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, he was the youngest of eight children in his mother’s boarding house. He drew heavily on his upbringing in works like Look Homeward, Angel (1929), mapping childhood, family, and ambition onto a fictional alter-ego, Eugene Gant, in a style marked by lyrical intensity and impressionistic prose. Wolfe was educated at the University of North Carolina and Harvard, where he grew from aspiring playwright to novelist, publishing three more major autobiographical works—Of Time and the River (1935), The Web and the Rock (posthumous, 1939), and You Can’t Go Home Again (posthumous, 1940)—that explored themes of homecoming, longing, and personal myth. Despite dying at 37 from tuberculosis, his ripe, sprawling narratives and emotional candor influenced later writers and secured his place as a central figure in the American Southern Renaissance. Today, Wolfe's childhood home in Asheville (immortalized as "Dixieland" in his fiction) is preserved as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial and is open to the public. view less
Books by Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel You Can't Go Home Again Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thomas Wolfe: The Complete Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Web and the Root Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOf Time and The River Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Look Homeward, Angel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Essential Novelists - Thomas Wolfe: original and impressionistic prose Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLook Homeward, Angel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLook Homeward, Angel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOf Time and the River: Thomas Wolfe's Sweeping American Epic of Growth, Loss, and the Longing for Home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLook Homeward, Angel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Audiobooks by Thomas Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Look Homeward, Angel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Foundations of Fiction - Modernism: Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Cullenden of Virginia: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings