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Thomas Wolfe

Born

in Asheville, North Carolina, The United States

October 03, 1900

Died

September 15, 1938

Website

http://library.uncwil.edu/wolfe/wolfe.html

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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People best know American writer Thomas Clayton Wolfe for his autobiographical novels, including Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and the posthumously published You Can't Go Home Again (1940).

Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels and many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He mixed highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Wolfe wrote and published books that vividly reflect on American culture and the mores, filtered through his sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective. People widely knew him during his own lifetime.

Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Robert Morgan with Gap Creek; Pat Conroy, author of ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 29,717 ratings · 2,994 reviews · 419 distinct works • Similar authors

	Look Homeward, Angel 3.91 avg rating — 16,116 ratings — published 1929 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Can't Go Home Again 4.04 avg rating — 5,489 ratings — published 1940	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth by Thomas Wolfe, Pat Conroy (Introduction) 4.19 avg rating — 1,352 ratings — published 1935 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe, Ed Lindlof, James William Clark Jr. 3.95 avg rating — 1,310 ratings — published 1937 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Web and the Rock 4.01 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 1938 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe by Thomas Wolfe, James Dickey (Foreword), Francis E. Skipp (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Death to Morning 3.87 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1935 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of a Novel 3.81 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1936 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hills Beyond 3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1941 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life by Thomas Wolfe, Arlyn Bruccoli (Editor), Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

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“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”
― Thomas Wolfe

tags: cooking, homemaking, wife

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The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Touchstone by Edith Wharton

41 votes, 28.3%

The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann

25 votes, 17.2%

The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe

21 votes, 14.5%

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ

14 votes, 9.7%

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