Of Time and the River

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

I'm still moved by Wolfe's ability to convey the human appetite for understanding and experience

Elizabeth Kostova, author of 'The Historian'

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