Thomas Wolfe

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1936
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Story of a Novel

  • You Can't Go Home Again

    Now available from Thomas Wolfe’s original publisher, the final novel by the literary legend, that “will stand apart from everything else that he wrote” (The New York Times Book Review) -- first published in 1940 and long considered a classic o...

  • The Hills Beyond

    The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories and novellas takes its title is credited as Wolfe's final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family and conveys Wolfe's fine sense of family traits, rooted in a traceable past...

  • The Web and the Rock

    This is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel by an authentic man of genius, Thomas Wolfe - about the struggles and triumphs of an aspiring writer named George Webber in the glittering world of New York, about one young man's discovery of life and t...

  • Look Homeward, Angel

    The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man’s coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and...

  • The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe

    The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe stands as the most comprehensive edition of Thomas Wolfe’s short fiction to date. Collected by Francis E. Skipp, these fifty-eight stories span the breadth of Thomas Wolfe’s career, from the uninhibited ...

  • The Good Child's River

    For the last eight years of his life, Thomas Wolfe worked periodically on a series of chapters that were part of a huge work-in-progress. The work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom W...

  • Lost Boy

    Thomas Wolfe's ###The Lost Boy# is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. The story of Wolfe's brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair is told from four perspectives, each articulating the se...

  • The Starwick Episodes

    One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe's fiction is Francis Starwick, the Midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Grant at Harvard in Wolfe's second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River. Wolfe created Starwick in order to pr...



  • The Party At Jack's

    In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, 'I ...

  • O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life

    From an Amazon review: "As Pat Conroy writes on the rear jacket panel of this book, "'O Lost' is the greatest news for Thomas Wolfe lovers since the publication of 'Look Homeward, Angel.'" The statement is not hyperbole. This is it---the original ma...

  • The Four Lost Men

    This is the first publication of the long version of Thomas Wolfe's story of familial and national reflection set during the First World War. It offers a portrait of the author's dying father, as well as a meditation on American history and ambitions...

  • The Web and The Root

    A man journeys from a small town to the big city in this prequel to the classic You Can’t Go Home Again.Shortly before his death in 1938 at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequent...

  • Of Time & The River

  • Of Time and the River

  • The Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe - Volume I

  • The Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe - Volume II

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thomas Wolfe has published 17 books.

Thomas Wolfe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe - Volume II, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Thomas Wolfe, Story of a Novel, was published in June 1936.

No. Thomas Wolfe does not write books in series.
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