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Tom Kromer

Born

in Huntington, The United States

October 20, 1906

Died

January 10, 1969

Genre

Autobiography

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Thomas Michael Kromer was born Huntington, West Virginia from a family of Czech immigrants, firstborn of five brothers. He attended to Marshall College (now University) but with the 1929's Great Depression he begun to live like a hobo through the States for five years. He published the account of this experience in his only book Waiting for nothing.

The book is a a realistic account of life as a homeless man during the Great Depression. There is no overarching theme to the novel, which is a collection of anecdotes. Except for a few stories, Kromer said the incidents in the novel were autobiographical.
Straightforward, declarative sentences in the tough-guy argot of the time are characteristic of Kromer, as are spare descriptions of grim sce ...more

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	Waiting For Nothing 4.22 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1935 — 24 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
	Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings by Tom Kromer, Arthur D. Casciato (Editor), James L.W. West III (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1986 — 7 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 anxious years: America in the nineteen thirties; a collection of contemporary writings by Louis Filler (Editor / Contributor), Milton Hindus (Contributor), Meyer Levin (Contributor) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1963	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
	Years of protest: A collection of American writings of the 1930's by James Agee, Richard Wright, Edmund Wilson 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1967 — 6 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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Quotes by Tom Kromer (?)

“When I look at these stiffs by the fire, I am looking at a graveyard. There is hardly room to move between the tombstones. . . . The epitaphs are chiseled in sunken shadows on their cheeks”
― Tom Kromer, Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings

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