On this day in 1935 Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River was published. Wolfe would die three-and-a-half years later, at the age of thirty-seven; however incomplete or over-cut Wolfe regarded it, this was the last novel that would be published in his lifetime. The legendary story of how the "Leviathan" manuscript was wrestled into publication shape is funny, poignant and full justification for editor Maxwell Perkins' initial feeling "that Wolfe was a turbulent spirit, and that we were in for turbulence." ... FULL STORY »
