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Thomas Clayton Wolfe by Zachary Lee Howerton Thomas Wolfe is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. The author was born in Asheville N.C, the son of William Oliver, from Pennsylvania, and Julia Elizabeth Westall Wolfe, a North Carolinian. Wolfe studied at the University of North Carolina. While he was there he wrote for school magazines and became the editor of the University’s newspaper. After he Graduated from the University of North Carolina he went to Harvard University were he received his masters degree in playwriting in 1923.In his four most famous novels he took things from his own life and applied them to his books. His first novel, __ Look Homeward, Angel __ was published in 1929. His second novel, __ Of Time and the River __, was published in 1935. His third __The Web and the Rock__ and his fourth __You Can’t go Home__ were published after his death. Wolfe is interested in portraying a representative American experience and a story of American youth in his novel. Wolfe   uses__ Look Homeward, Angel __’s Eugene Gant to portray himself as a youth who identified with the people from his schooling. __Look Homeward, Angel__ is as appealing and powerful a book as has ever been made out of the dull circumstances of southern American life. The books autobiographical content upset the people in Asheville. They were aggravated by its often ugly characterizations, and many Southerners were disgusted by passages that indicted southern society in general. __ Of Time and the River  __  was the last novel completed by the author before his death;  //__ Of __//__ Time and the River __ is one of the great books of American literature. The book records the maturing of Wolfe's alter ego, Eugene Gant, in his frantic search for fulfillment, making his way from North Carolina to the rest of the world. In a big, ambitious, and bravely passionate novel, Wolfe examines the passing of time and the nature of the innovative process, as Gant slowly but joyfully embraces the urban life, recognizing it as a necessary trial for the birth of his creative brilliance as a writer. The work of a very expressive author of rich imagination and surprising moving passion, __ Of Time and the River __ sheds a light on the universal truths about art and life, city and country, past and present. __ The Web and the Rock __ is fictionalized autobiography, with hero George Webber playing Thomas Wolfe. But in __ The Web and the Rock __ Wolfe seems to be moving to a social awareness, and social realization of people and institutions that are not projections of Thomas Wolfe. With his last novel, __ You Can't Go Home __ Again, Wolfe  goes even farther than he did in __ The Web and the Rock __ in the direction of social consciousness. He is also trying to seize and formalize the nature and direction of nothing less than American society itself. Thomas Clayton Wolfe died on September 15, 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland leaving behind great works that shed a light on life growing up and leaving the south.

Walser, Richard. __The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe.__ New York: New York University Press, 1968 Thw book __The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe__ by Richard Walser contains plenty of information about Thomas Wolfe and is very helpful by explaining the themes of Wolfes books, and what he was trying to accomplish with his writings. but with all of the chapters it is hard to find information. Field, Leslie. __Three Decades of Criticism Thomas Wolfe.__ Cambridge: Harvard University Press,1953 This book __Three Decades of Criticism Thomas Wolfe__ by Leslie Field contains many Chapters and each explaining a different aspect of Thomas Wolfes life.The only problem is that it is hard to fully grasp what the book is trying to say about Thomas Wolfe. And there is not about his early life it is mostly about his works. __ Thomas Wolfe. __  __ DISCovering Authors __. , 2003. 26 May 2008 Literary Reference Center    <[|http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.] The database __ Thomas Wolfe __ had    a lot to offer on the works of Thomas Wolfe and the contents of his life. It was very useful. But it wasn’t organized very well it was challenging to read. And it concentrated more on his education and life more than his books. Which does not people understand what he was trying to do with his writings. __ Wolfe, Thomas (Clayton) (1900-1938). __ __ DISCovering Authors __. 26 May 2008 Literary Reference Center    <[|http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.] The database __ Wolfe, Thomas (Clayton) (1900-1938) __ explains Wolfe’s childhood and how his upbringing in Ashville, North Carolina helps him write his books. And explained how he bases his stories on his own life and experiences
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