American novelist Thomas Wolfe visits Berlin, Germany, May,1935. #ThomasWolfe [AP Photo]

Thomas Wolfe ... the naked truth! Thomas Wolfe (1900 ~ 1938) was an American novelist. He wrote four novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and he became widely known during his own lifetime. After Wolfe's death, his contemporary William…

We were never taught, for example, to question the life around us, which was the little world of Asheville, which in its turn is the whole world of America.

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An Asheville native, Thomas Wolfe emerged as one of the early-twentieth century’s most controversial writers. His meandering writing style irritated many editors, who nevertheless recognized a diamond in the rough and published his work. His first novel, Look Homeward Angel, angered many of his former mountain neighbors; his novel was autobiographical, and he did little to mask the characters’ identities.

"And beauty swells like a wild song in our heart ..." -Thomas Wolfe

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Looking back at one of the 20th century's most stylish writers on his 85th birthday.

AP Photo, FileThomas Wolfe is shown in this painting by Douglas Gorsline, illustrator of a Scribner edition of Wolfe's novel, "Look Homeward, Angel."French writer Henri Alban Fournier (1886), American novelist Thomas Wolfe (1900), American novelist Gore Vidal (1925), English veterinarian...

But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about... - Thomas Wolfe quotes at AZquotes.com