Primary Works

Look Homeward, Angel, 1929 (novel); Of Time and the River, 1935 (novel); From Death to Morning, 1935 (stories); The Story of a Novel, 1936 (an account of the writing of the first novel); The web and the Rock, 1939 (manuscript novel); You Can't Go Home Again, 1940 (manuscript novel); The Hills Beyond, 1941 (includes an unfinished novel and stories); Gentlemen of the Press, 1942 (play); Mannerhouse, 1948 (play); A Western Journal, 1951 (travel narrative).

Look homeward, angel, a story of the buried life. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. PS3545.O337 .L6

From death to morning. NY: C. Scribner 1935. PS3545.O337 .F7

The face of a nation. poetical passages from the writings of Thomas Wolfe; decorations by Edward Shenton. NY: The Literary Guild, 1939. PS3545.O337 A6

The web and the rock. Garden City, NY: Sun Dial P, 1940, 1937. PS3545 .O337 W4

You can't go home again. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial P, 1942. PS3545.O337 Y6

The hills beyond. with a note on Thomas Wolfe by Edward C. Aswell. NY: Sun Dial P, 1943. PS3545.O337 .H5

Of time and the river: a legend of man's hunger in his youth. Garden City, NY: Sun Dial P, 1944 PS3545.O337 .O34

Letters. collected and edited, with an intro. and explanatory text, by Elizabeth Nowell. NY: Scribner 1956. PS3545.O337 Z54

Short novels. Edited, with an introd. and notes, by C. Hugh Holman. NY: Scribner 1961. PS3545.O337 .A6

The Thomas Wolfe reader. Edited, with an introd. and notes, by C. Hugh Holman. NY: Scribner 1962. PS3545.O337 A6

The letters of Thomas Wolfe to his mother. Newly edited from the original manuscripts by C. Hugh Holman and Sue Fields Ross. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina P, 1968. PS3545 O337 Z552

The notebooks of Thomas Wolfe. Edited by Richard S. Kennedy and Paschal Reeves. 2 vols. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina P, 1970. PS3545 .O337 Z5

The mountains; a play in one act. The mountains; a drama in three acts and a prologue. Edited, with an introd., by Pat M. Ryan. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina P, 1970. PS3545 O337 M6

Welcome to our city: a play in ten scenes. by Thomas Wolfe; edited with an introduction by Richard S. Kennedy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P, 1983. PS3545 .O337 W49

The complete short stories of Thomas Wolfe. edited by Francis E. Skipp; foreword by James Dickey. NY: Scribner, 1987. PS3545 .O337 A15

The lost boy: a novella. by Thomas Wolfe; edited and with an introduction by James W. Clark, Jr.; illustrations by Ed Lindlof. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1992. PS3545 .O337 L

The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor. Bruccoli, Matthew J. (ed.); Baughman, Judith S. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2004.

The Autobiographical Outline for Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. Conniff, Lucy (ed. and introd.); Kennedy, Richard S. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2004.

Windows of the Heart: The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Margaret Roberts. Mitchell, Ted. ed. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 2007.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Bloom, Harold. ed. Thomas Wolfe. NY: Chelsea, 1987.

Ensign, Robert T. Lean Down Your Ear upon the Earth, and Listen: Thomas Wolfe's Greener Modernism. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2003.

Evans, Elizabeth. Thomas Wolfe. NY: F. Ungar, 1984. PS3545 .O337 Z68

Harper, Margaret M. The Aristocracy of Art in Joyce and Wolfe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1990.

Holliday, Shawn. Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism. NY: Peter Lang, 2001.

Johnston, Carol I. Of Time and the Artist: Thomas Wolfe, His Novels, and the Critics. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995.

Lanzinger, Klaus. Jason's Voyage: The Search for the Old World in American Literature: A Study of Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James, and Thomas Wolfe. NY: Peter Lang, 1989.

Madden, David. ed. Thomas Wolfe's Civil War. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2004.

Madden, David. Touching the Web of Southern Novelists. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2006.

Mauldin, Joanne M. Thomas Wolfe: When Do the Atrocities Begin? Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2007.

McEneaney, Kevin T. Tom Wolfe's America: Heroes, Pranksters, and Fools. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009.

McKeen, William. Tom Wolfe. NY: Twayne, 1995.

Phillipson, John S. Critical essays on Thomas Wolfe. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985. PS3545 .O337 Z825

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