Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas WolfeThis is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's Old Kentucky Home, caricatured in Look Homeward Angel, to European capitals where he indulged his Faustian yearning to read, see and do everything. |
Contents
A Secret Life | 3 |
The Magical Campus | 32 |
By God I Have Genius | 65 |
I Shall Conquer the World | 103 |
I Must Spin Out My Entrails | 141 |
Like Some Blind Thing upon the Floor of the Sea | 173 |
A Miracle of Good Luck | 197 |
Penance More | 233 |
The Famous American Novelist | 312 |
Almost Every Kind of Worry | 346 |
Unmistakable and Most Grievous Severance | 384 |
A New World Is Before Me Now | 422 |
The Posthumous Novels of Thomas Wolfe | 464 |
Acknowledgments | 485 |
Sources Abbreviations and Notes | 493 |
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