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— Thomas Wolfe, My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein [2] Bernstein met Thomas Wolfe in 1925 aboard the RMS Olympic when Wolfe was 25 and Bernstein 44. [ note 1 ] [ 14 ] Bernstein became Wolfe's lover and provided Wolfe with emotional, domestic, and financial support while he wrote his first novel, Look Homeward ...
The Good Child's River is a novel by Thomas Wolfe.A formerly lost novel, it was first published in 1991, 53 years after Wolfe's death. The book was found, edited, and produced by Suzanne Stutman, a Wolfe scholar who also edited the 1983 book My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein.
Perkins and Wolfe become best friends, while Wolfe's relationship with Aline Bernstein, a married woman 20 years his senior, is severely tested after the novel's publication. Max manages to publish Wolfe's successful second novel, Of Time and the River , after several years of exhausting revision.
Unlike Wolfe's major novels, The Good Child's River doesn't include either Eugene Gant or George Webber, Wolfe's fictional counterparts, but instead focuses on Webber's lover, Esther Jack (based on Aline Bernstein). Bernstein made many notes about her life for Wolfe, who fashioned the material into The Good Child's River. [1]
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [1] [2] 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. [1]
My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein [6] Suzanne Stutman (editor) University of North Carolina Press ISBN 978-0807841174: 1984 Thomas Wolfe [7] Elizabeth Evans Ungar: OCLC: 566216706 1987 A Thomas Wolfe Companion [8] John L. Idol Greenwood: ISBN 978-0313238291: 1987 Thomas Wolfe [9] Harold Bloom: Chelsea House: ISBN ...
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Library Journal called the book the most successful of Wolfe's three major biographies to that date [3] (it had been preceded by books by Wolfe's agent Elizabeth Nowell [4] (1960) and by Andrew Turnbull (1967), [5] both titled Thomas Wolfe: A Biography; other biographies have been published since).