Further Reading
- Boyer, James. "The Metaphorical Level in Wolfe's 'The Sun and the Rain'." Studies in Short Fiction 19, No. 4 (Fall 1982): 384-87. (Analyzes the literary technique of Wolfe's short story 'The Sun and the Rain' and explores its pervasive symbolism of the earth as a source of strength.)
- Doten, Sharon. "Thomas Wolfe's 'No Door': Some Textual Questions." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 68, No. 1 (January-March 1974): 45-52. (Examines textual evidence provided by manuscripts of Wolfe's short novel 'No Door' in order to assess his method of composing short fiction, and the relation of such works to Wolfe's longer novels.)
- Forssberg, William. "Part Two of 'The Lost Boy': Theme and Intention." Studies in Short Fiction IV, No. 2 (Winter 1967): 167-69. (Focuses on the theme of discontinuity of identity in the second part of Wolfe's short story 'The Lost Boy'.)
- Idol, John L., Jr. "Germany as Thomas Wolfe's Second Dark Helen: The Angst of 'I Have a Thing to Tell You'." The Thomas Wolfe Review 19, No. 1 (Spring 1995): 1-9. (Explores the anguish Wolfe felt and later captured in fiction following his visits to Hitler's Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s.)
- Idol, John L., Jr. "Thomas Wolfe's 'A Note on Experts'." Studies in Short Fiction XI, No. 4 (Fall 1974): 395-98. (Discusses a rare and uncompleted sketch of a sports writer published on a limited scale in 1939 as 'A Note on Experts'.)
- Idol, John L., Jr. "Wolfe's 'The Lion at Morning' and 'Old Man Rivers'." The Thomas Wolfe Newsletter 1, No. 2 (Fall 1977): 21-4. (Studies two fictional sketches of editors Wolfe composed from his real-life acquaintances.)
- Kennedy, Richard S. The Window of Memory: The Literary Career of Thomas Wolfe. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1962, 461 p. (An important, well-documented, biographical and critical study of Wolfe, which includes sections on 'From Death to Morning', the short novel 'I Have a Thing to Tell You', and other significant pieces of Wolfe's shorter fiction.)
- Owen, Guy. "'An Angel on the Porch' and Look Homeward, Angel." The Thomas Wolfe Newsletter 4, No. 2 (Fall 1980): 21-4. (Argues that 'An Angel on the Porch' is 'a meticulously revised and reshaped version of Chapter XIX' in 'Look Homeward, Angel' that stands on its own as 'a mature work of art'.)
- Pencak, William. "'Only the Dead Know Brooklyn'—Or Do 'The Bums at Sunset'?" The Thomas Wolfe Review 19, No. 2 (Fall 1995): 44-51. (Investigates the theme of transcendence from squalor and death in two of Wolfe's short stories set in Brooklyn.)
- Phillipson, John S. "Thomas Wolfe's 'Chickamauga': The Fact and the Fiction." The Thomas Wolfe Review 6, No. 2 (Fall 1982): 9-22. (Traces the real-life sources of Wolfe's short story 'Chickamauga'.)
- Stutman, Suzanne. "Reconsideration: Mediation, Aline Bernstein, and Thomas Wolfe's 'The Good Child's River'." MELUS 14, No. 2 (Summer 1987): 95-101. (Examines Wolfe's use of his former lover, Aline Bernstein, as a symbol of an 'earth mother goddess' in his story 'The Good Child's River'.)
- Walser, Richard, ed. The Enigma of Thomas Wolfe: Biographical and Critical Selections. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953, 313 p. (A collection of essays on Wolfe's life and work, containing important critical comments by his editors, Margaret Church, W. P. Albrecht, and others.)
- Watkins, Floyd C. Thomas Wolfe's Characters: Portraits from Life. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957, 194 p. (Identifies the actual persons, places, and events fictionalized in Wolfe's works.)
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