TY - BOOK N2 - Literary critics ranked him with Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Melville. His vibrant autobiographical novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River won Thomas Wolfe the admiration of his peers, and writers as various as Kerouac, Mailer, and Vonnegut have acknowledged a debt to him. With extracts from his personal papers as well as reviews of his work and assessments of his genius, this illustrated volume poignantly recounts the course of Wolfe's career and bolsters his literary reputation.--From publisher description. AB - Literary critics ranked him with Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Melville. His vibrant autobiographical novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River won Thomas Wolfe the admiration of his peers, and writers as various as Kerouac, Mailer, and Vonnegut have acknowledged a debt to him. With extracts from his personal papers as well as reviews of his work and assessments of his genius, this illustrated volume poignantly recounts the course of Wolfe's career and bolsters his literary reputation.--From publisher description. T1 - Thomas Wolfe :an illustrated biography / DA - c2006. CY - New York, NY : AU - Mitchell, Ted. ET - 1st Pegasus Books ed. CN - PS3545.O337 CN - PS3545.O337 PB - Pegasus Books, PP - New York, NY : PY - c2006. ID - 707042 KW - Novelists, American SN - 9781933648101 SN - 1933648104 TI - Thomas Wolfe :an illustrated biography / ER -