These letters, approximately 700 in number, beginning in 1908 when Thomas Wolfe was still a young boy, and ending with his death, give us the real Thomas Wolfe, with all the many sides of his dynamic but enigmatic personality. These letters tell the story of his growth and of his "trying to keep true" - a story which, with its tragic denouement, is one of the most dramatic and moving in all literary history. Includes an Index.

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