Thomas Wolfe’s Death – Cause and Date

The novelist Thomas Wolfe died at the age of 37. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

An important 20th-century American novelist, he is best known for works such as Look Homeward, Angel, You Can’t Go Home Again, and The Party at Jack’s. He is widely regarded as the most respected author the state of North Carolina has ever produced.

He was the youngest of eight children born to William Oliver Wolfe and Julia Elizabeth Westall.

Quotes

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In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

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Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

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America – it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.