托马斯·沃尔夫

托马斯·伍尔夫（英语：Thomas Wolfe，1900年10月3日—1938年9月15日），美国小说家。

托马斯·伍尔夫一生共创作四部长篇小说，许多短篇小说，戏剧和中篇小说。 他以混合高度原创、诗意、悲剧、印象派散文与自传文字而闻名于世。他以敏感，复杂和超分析的观点在作品中生动地反映美国文化和当代的习俗。

托马斯·伍尔夫去世后，威廉·福克纳说伍尔夫可能是当代小说家中最有天赋的一位。托马斯·伍尔夫也影响到杰克·凯鲁亚克、雷·布莱伯利和菲利普·罗斯等人的作品。他仍然是现代美国文学的重要作家，自传小说大师，被认为是北卡罗来纳州史上最著名的作家。

作品

小说

《天使望乡》（又名：《天使望故乡》）

《时间与河流》

《网与石》

《你不能再回家》

《从死亡到早晨》

《上帝的孤独者》

杂集

《远山》

大众文化

《天才柏金斯》：2016年传记电影，托马斯·伍尔夫由裘德·洛饰演。

Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon. He has been dubbed "North Carolina's most famous writer."

Wolfe wrote four long novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on the American culture and mores of that period, filtered through Wolfe's sensitive and uncomfortable perspective.

After Wolfe's death, Faulkner said that he might have been the greatest talent of their shared generation, and that he had aimed higher than any other writer. Faulkner's endorsement failed to win over mid- to late-20th century critics and Wolfe's place in the literary canon remained in question. However, 21st century academics have largely rejected this negative assessment, and a more positive and balanced assessment has emerged, combining renewed interest in his works, particularly his short fiction, with greater appreciation of his experimentation with literary forms, which has secured Wolfe a place in the literary canon.

Wolfe had great influence on Jack Kerouac, and his influence extended to other postwar authors, including Ray Bradbury and Philip Roth.

Early life

Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina, the youngest of eight children of William Oliver Wolfe (1851–1922) and Julia Elizabeth Westall (1860–1945). Six of the children lived to adulthood. His father, of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, was a successful stone carver and ran a gravestone business.

W. O. Wolfe's business used an angel statue in the window to attract customers. Thomas Wolfe "described the angel in great detail" in a short story and in Look Homeward, Angel. The angel was sold and, while there was controversy over which one was the actual angel, the location of the "Thomas Wolfe angel" was determined in 1949 to be Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Wolfe's mother took in boarders and was active in acquiring real estate. In 1904, she opened a boarding house in St. Louis, Missouri, for the World's Fair. While the family was in St. Louis, Wolfe's 12-year-old brother, Grover, died of typhoid fever.

In 1906, Julia Wolfe bought a boarding house named "Old Kentucky Home" at nearby 48 Spruce Street in Asheville, taking up residence there with her youngest son while the rest of the family remained at the Woodfin Street residence. Wolfe lived in the boarding house on Spruce Street until he went to college in 1916. It is now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. Wolfe was closest to his brother Ben, whose early death at age 26 is chronicled in Look Homeward, Angel. Julia Wolfe bought and sold many properties, eventually becoming a successful real estate speculator.