Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon.
Background
- Born in
- Asheville
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"America... It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitab…"
"Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose conc…"
"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, … back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and system…"
"His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure."
"I think the enemy is here before us, too. But I think we know the forms and faces of the enemy, and in the knowledge that we know him, and shall meet him, and eventually must conquer him is also our l…"
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1900
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