Thomas Wolfe: An Annotated Critical Bibliography

John E. Bassett’s annotated critical bibliography reveals that Thomas Wolfe (1900‐1938), author of Look Homeward, Angel (1929), is not the neglected contemporary of Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, Faulkner and Hemingway, that he may appear to be. As Bassett observes in a succinct, well‐documented and written Introduction ‐ “Thomas Wolfe is a unique figure in modern American literary history, who like Dos Passos. . .was a figure much praised and discussed in the 1930s but the subject of relatively little scholarship and analysis in the 1980s and 1990s”. For Bassett, the classic age for Wolfe criticism spanned the 1953‐1975 era when...