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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American coming-of-age story. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself.
Home. All Sites. Thomas Wolfe Memorial. History. Biography of Thomas Wolfe. Throughout his literary career, Thomas Clayton Wolfe mined the early years of his life to extract every scrap of truth from his experiences, and to carve these truths into art. He seemed to take little pleasure in the finished work, but would feverishly turn to the next.
Thomas Wolfe has 345 books on Goodreads with 98282 ratings. Thomas Wolfe’s most popular book is Look Homeward, Angel.
You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair. It is a sequel to The Web and the Rock, which, along with the collection The Hills Beyond, was extracted from the same manuscript.
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May 23, 2018 · Thomas Clayton Wolfe (1900-1938) was an American novelist of prodigious talent and equally formidable failings. His highly autobiographical novels are notable for fervent energy, uninhibited emotion, and grandly rhetorical language.
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Wolfe, Thomas. In full: Thomas Clayton Wolfe. Born: Oct. 3, 1900, Asheville, N.C., U.S. Died: Sept. 15, 1938, Baltimore, Md. (aged 37) Notable Works: “Look Homeward, Angel” “Of Time and the River” “The Story of a Novel” “The Web and the Rock” “You Can’t Go Home Again”
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