Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe was born in 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina, the last of eight children of a tombstone cutter and a mother who ran a boarding house. He entered university at fifteen, studied drama at Harvard intending to write for the stage, then taught in New York. He handed his editor, Maxwell Perkins, enormous manuscripts that the latter helped him cut down. For five years he was the companion of the theatre designer Aline Bernstein. He died in Baltimore in 1938, aged thirty-seven.

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• NovelLook Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried LifeThomas Wolfe · 1929LiteraturePublic domain