Thomas Wolfe

A novelist of copious detail whose feelings were deeply rooted in American life, THOMAS WOLFE was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1900. After Chapel Hill his interest in playwriting took him to Harvard to study under Professor George Pierce Baker. Then he was on his own, traveling in Europe, teaching in Manhattan, writing plays, and feeling the ferment out of which came his first vibrant novel, Look Homeward, Angel. Two editors played a formative part in Tom Wolfe’s career, the late Max Perkins of Scribner’s and Edward C. Aswell, now of Whittlesey House. But others he observed, as we see from this long-withheld narrative.

These letters of a great novelist illuminate the problems of every beginning writer.

These letters of a great novelist illuminate the problems of every beginning writer.

These letters of a great novelist illuminate the problems of every beginning writer.