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Thomas Wolfe

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Thomas Wolfe


Born
in Asheville, North Carolina, The United States
October 03, 1900

Died
September 15, 1938

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction

Influences
Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, James Joyce ...more


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

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.95 · 29,011 ratings · 2,834 reviews · 410 distinct works • Similar authors
Look Homeward, Angel
3.91 avg rating — 15,783 ratings — published 1929 — 388 editions
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You Can't Go Home Again
4.04 avg rating — 5,393 ratings — published 1940 — 137 editions
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Of Time and the River: A Le...
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4.19 avg rating — 1,333 ratings — published 1935 — 101 editions
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The Lost Boy
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3.95 avg rating — 1,220 ratings — published 1937 — 36 editions
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The Web and the Rock
4.01 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 1938 — 67 editions
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The Complete Short Stories ...
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4.19 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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From Death to Morning
3.87 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1935 — 18 editions
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The Story of a Novel
3.84 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1936 — 29 editions
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The Hills Beyond
3.88 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 1941 — 46 editions
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O Lost: A Story of the Buri...
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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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Polls

April 2018 New School Poll

 
  65 votes, 18.3%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945
 
  41 votes, 11.5%

 
  34 votes, 9.6%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902
 
  33 votes, 9.3%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932
 
  27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995
 
  26 votes, 7.3%

 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938
 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, 225 pages, 1932
 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940
 
  17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933
 
  11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903
 
  10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939
 
  10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987
 
  9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974
 
  4 votes, 1.1%

 
  3 votes, 0.8%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929
 
  2 votes, 0.6%

355 total votes
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