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| September 18, 1940 |
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| Thomas Wolfe (1900 - 1938) |
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Thomas Wolfe, Going Home
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1940 Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again was published, two years after his death from tubercular meningitis at the age of thirty-seven. Earlier novels in his four-book, autobiographical series included the best-selling Look Homeward Angel, and the lesser-known middle books, Of Time and the River and The Web and the Rock. Wolfe's legendary style of writing, like that of his life, was flowing and impassioned, and an editor's worst nightmare. The first two books in the series were reworked by Wolfe under advisement from Max Perkins at Scribner's; the last two (and a collection of short stores, The Hills Beyond) were culled by Harper's editor Edward Aswell from the mammoth manuscript which Wolfe left behind in jumbled piles and boxes -- some 1 ... FULL STORY »
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