A collection of reminiscences captures the private life of a great
American writer. Thomas Wolfe's life may seem to be an open book. A
life that, after all, was the source for his best-known works,
including the novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the
River, as well as his numerous short stories and dramas. Since his
death in 1938, scholars and admirers of Wolfe have relied largely
on these texts to understand the man himself. Thomas Wolfe
Remembered provides something new: a rich, multifaceted portrait
painted by those who knew him (casually or intimately), loved him
(or didn't), and saw, heard, and experienced the literary (and
literal) giant. This volume gathers in one place for the first time
dozens of reminiscences by friends, family members, colleagues, and
casual acquaintances, adding color and fine details to the
self-portrait the author created in his novels. Wolfe found plenty
to challenge and frustrate him throughout his life, from his
boyhood in Asheville, North Carolina, to his education at the
University of North Carolina and Harvard University, through his
time in New York and Europe, his travels through the American West,
and his death in Baltimore. He experienced two distracted parents
in a loveless marriage, the premature death of a beloved brother, a
minor stutter, and the difficulties of controlling a mercurial
temper. Yet Wolfe's exuberance, perceptiveness, memory, and
compulsion to record virtually all that he experienced made for an
extravagance of material that sometimes angered the people whose
lives he used as source material. Editors Mark Canada and Nami
Montgomery have collected dozens of remembrances, many unpublished
or long forgotten, including pieces from Julia Wolfe, Margaret
Roberts, Frederick Koch, Maxwell Perkins, Elizabeth Nowell, Edward
Aswell, and Martha Dodd. Some are endearing, others are disturbing,
and many are comical. All provide glimpses into the vibrant,
haunted, boyish, paranoid, disheveled, courteous, captivating,
infuriating, and altogether fascinating giant who was Thomas Wolfe.
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