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Thomas Wolfe was
born in 1900 in Ashville, North Carolina. His
parents split when he was a child and he lived with
his mother in a boarding house. Wolfe’s loneliness
was his greatest resource for writing, He rarely saw
her as she worked to provide for her children.
He was an avid
reader and an excellent student. He attended the
University of North Carolina where he wrote
plays and performed them. He graduated in 1920 and
went on to earn a master’s degree at Harvard, but
had no luck publishing his work.
Eventually,
Wolf
found a publisher for his first novel, Look
Homeward Angel. The novel was met with both
praise and criticism. The main character, Eugene
Gant, is Thomas Wolfe, and Wolfe carried this
character forward in another novel, Of Time and
River, published in 1935.
He was near
completion on two novels, having full drafts and
many revisions completed when he died of pneumonia
in 1938.
The Web and The Rock, and perhaps
his most well-known novel, You Can’t Go Home
Again, were published in 1939 and 1940.
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