Look Homeward, Angel

Look Homeward, Angel is one of the most important novels of my life ... It's a wonderful story for any young person burning with literary ambition, but it also speaks to the longings of our whole lives; I'm still moved by Wolfe's ability to convey the human appetite for understanding and experience

Elizabeth Kostova, author of 'The Historian'

In 1949, when I was sixteen, I stumbled on Thomas Wolfe, who died at thirty-eight in 1938, and who made numerous adolescents aside from me devotees of literature for life

Philip Roth

Language as rich and ambitious and intensely American as any of our novelists has ever accomplished

Charles Frazier, author of 'Cold Mountain'

He had that flair for the extravagant and fantastic which has been an American characteristic from Irving and Poe to Dashiell Hammett

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The product of an immense exuberance, organic in its form, kinetic, and drenched with the love of life ... I rejoice over Mr. Wolfe

Richard Aldington