THOMAS WOLFE: A PUBLISHING CHRONOLOGY

Aldo P. Magi

Not a conventional bibliography, the following is a complete listing of Wolfe's work showing the time and place of original publication. "Return," for instance, which appeared in an Asheville newspaper in 1937, was later reprinted in a separate pamphlet, but the later publication is not cited herein.

1917 November ... "A Field in Flanders," a poem, his first

published creative effort. The University of

North Carolina Magazine.

December..... "To France," a poem. The University of

North Carolina Magazine.

1918 March ..... "The Challenge," a poem. The University

of North Carolina Magazine.

"A Cullenden of Virginia," a short story,

his first published fiction. The University of

North Carolina Magazine.

May.......... "To Rupert Brooke," a poem. The Univer-

sity of North Carolina Magazine.

1919 Spring .... The Crisis in Industry, an essay, awarded

the Worth Prize, Department of

Philosophy, The University of North

Carolina. Pamphlet, 14 pp., 200 copies.

April ....... "The Drammer," a poem. The University

of North Carolina Magazine.

May.......... "An Appreciation," a poem. The Univer-

sity of North Carolina Magazine.

June ........ "Russian Folk Song," a poem. The Univer-

sity of North Carolina Magazine.

Deferred Payment, a short play. The

University of North Carolina Magazine.

June 14 ...... "The Creative Movement in Writing," an

editorial, The Tar Heel, The University of

North Carolina.

October 25 .. "The Streets of Durham, or Dirty Work at

the Cross Roads (A Tragedy in Three Muddy Acts

By Tommy Wolfe)," a short play.

Carolina Tar Baby, The University of North

Carolina.

December 13 .... "Ye Who Have Been There Only Know,"

an essay about the excursion to Richmond

for the UNC & University of Virginia foot-

ball game in the autumn of 1916. The Tar

Heel, The University of North Carolina.

1920 May ........ Concerning Honest Bob, a short play. The

University of North Carolina Magazine.

During the period from October 11, 1919 to June 5, 1920, Thomas Wolfe served as Editor-in-Chief of The Tar Heel, and many issues of this paper contain unsigned editorials by him.

1924 .............. "The Return of Buck Gavin," a short play,

first produced by the Carolina Playmakers

at the University of North Carolina, March

14-15, 1919. Carolina Folk-Plays, 2nd ser.,

Edited by Frederick H. Koch. Henry Holt

and Company.

1925............... "London Tower" - The Sunday Citizen,

Asheville, N.C., July 19, 1925.

1929 August ..... "An Angel on the Porch" - Scribner's

Magazine.

October 18.... Look Homeward, Angel - Charles

Scribner's Sons.

1931 April 4 .... "The Grass Roof," a review of the novel

by Younghill Kang - New York Evening

Post.

1932 April ...... "A Portrait of Bascom Hawke" - Scribner's

Magazine.

July .......... "The Web of Earth" - Scribner's Magazine.

1933 May ........ "The Train and the City" - Scribner's

Magazine.

June .......... "Death the Proud Brother" - Scribner's

Magazine.

July .......... "No Door" - Scribner's Magazine.

1934 February..... "The Four Lost Men" - Scribner's

Magazine.

May........... "The Sun and the Rain" - Scribner's

Magazine.

August........ "The House of the Far and Lost" - Scribner's

Magazine.

November ...... "Dark in the Forest, Strange as Time" -

Scribner's Magazine.

December....... "The Names of the Nation" - Modern

Monthly.

1935 January .... "For Professional Appearance" - Modern

Monthly.

"One of the Girls in Our Party" -

Scribner's Magazine

March 8 ....... Of Time and the River - Charles Scribner's

Sons.

March ......... "Circus at Dawn" - Modern Monthly.

April .........."His Father's Earth" - Modern Monthly.

"Old Catawba" - The Virginia Quarterly

Review.

June ........... "Polyphemus" - The North American

Review.

"Gulliver" - Scribner's Magazine.

"In the Park" - Harper's Bazaar.

"Arnold Pentland" - Esquire.

"The Face of the War" - Modern Monthly.

June 15 ........ "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn" - The

New Yorker.

July ........... "Cottage by the Tracks" - Cosmopolitan.

October ........ "The Bums at Sunset" - Vanity Fair.

November 14..... From Death to Morning - Charles Scribner's Sons.

December 14,

21, 28....... "The Story of a Novel" - The Saturday

Review of Literature. (An expanded version

of this essay was published by Charles

Scribner's Sons, April 21, 1936)

1936 August....... "The Bell Remembered" - The American

Mercury.

October ........ "Fame and the Poet" - The American

Mercury.

1937 March 10, 17

& 24 .............."I Have a Thing to Tell You" - The New

Republic.

May 16 ............"Return" - The Asheville Citizen-Times.

May 29 ................"Mr. Malone" - The New Yorker.

June ..................."Oktoberfest" - Scribner's Magazine.

July 17 ............... " 'E: A Recollection" - The New Yorker.

September 11 .........."The Child by Tiger" - The Saturday Evening Post.

September ............."April, Late April" - The American Mercury.

October ..............."Katamoto" - Harper's Baazar.

November .............."The Lost Boy" - Redbook Magazine.

December..............."Chickamauga" - The Yale Review.

1938 January 11 .........."The Company" - New Masses.

February 1 ............"A Prologue to America" - Vogue.

September 15 ..........Died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

Maryland.

1939 April ......... "Portrait of a Literary Critic" - The

American Mercury.

May ............ "The Party at Jack's" - Scribner's Magazine.

June ............ "The Birthday" - Harper's Magazine.

"The Winter of Our Discontent" - The

Atlantic Monthly.

"The Golden City" - Harper's Bazaar.

June 10 ......... A Note on Experts: Dexter Vespasian Joyner House of Books, Ltd.

June 22 ......... The Web and the Rock - Harper & Bros.

Summer ......... "Three O'Clock" - The North American

Review.

October ........ "Enchanted City" - The Reader's Digest.

1940 August ....... "The Dark Messiah" - Current History and

Forum.

"The Hollyhock Sowers" - The American

Mercury.

"Nebraska Crane" - Harper's Magazine.

"So This Is Man" - Town and Country.

"The Promise of America" - Coronet.

September 18....You Can't Go Home Again - Harper & Bros.

October .............."The Hollow Men" - Esquire.

1941 September .........The Third Night, a short play, first produc-

ed by the Carolina Playmakers at the

University of North Carolina, December

12-13, 1919. The Carolina Play-Book.

October 15..... The Hills Beyond - Harper & Bros.

October ....... "The Anatomy of Loneliness" - The

American Mercury.

1943 March ...... "The Man Who Lives with His Ideas," a

tribute to Frederick Koch and the Carolina

Playmakers, written about 1923. The

Carolina Play-Book.

May 3 ......... Thomas Wolfe's Letters to his Mother,

Edited by John Skally Terry - Charles

Scribner's Sons.

1944 May......... "La Marquise de Mornaye" - Encore.

1947 December.... "Old Man Rivers" - Atlantic Monthly.

1948 February..... "Something of My Life" - Saturday Review

of Literature. (A brief portion of this

material appeared with the title "Auto-

biographical Sketch" in Georges

Schreiber's Portraits and Self Portraits,

Houghton Mifflin Co., 1936).

November .......... Mannerhouse: A Play in a Prologue and

Three Acts - Harper & Bros.

1951 ............. A Western Journal: A Daily Log of The

Great Parks Trip - University of Pittsburgh

Press. (Excerpts of this material earlier

appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review,

Summer, 1939 as "A Western Journey").

1953 ............. "Justice is Blind" - The Enigma of Thomas

Wolfe, Edited by Richard Walser, Harvard

University Press.

1954 ............. The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and

Homer Andrew Watt, Edited by Oscar

Cargill and Thomas Clark Pollock - New

York University Press.

1956............... The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, Edited by

Elizabeth Nowell - Charles Scribner's Sons.

1957 Winter...... "The Isle of Quisay" - Comparative

Literature.

October ..... Welcome to Our City, a ten-scene play

produced by the 47 Workshop, Harvard

University, with performances at the

Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe College, May

11-12, 1923 - Esquire. (This is a shortened

version of the 1923 production.)

1960 Spring...... "Biographical Fragment" - Carolina

Quarterly.

1961 ............. The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe, Edited

by C. Hugh Holman - Charles Scribner's

Sons.

1964 ............. Thomas Wolfe 's Purdue Speech: Writing

and Living, Edited by William Braswell and

Leslie A. Field - Purdue University Studies.

1968 .............. The Letters of Thomas Wolfe to His Mother,

newly edited from the original manuscripts

by C. Hugh Holman and Sue Fields Ross

The University of North Carolina Press.

1970 ............. The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe, Edited by

Richard S. Kennedy and Paschal Reeves -

The University of North Carolina Press.

The Mountains, two versions: a play in one

act; a drama in three acts and a prologue,

Edited by Pat M. Ryan--The University

of North Carolina Press.

1978.............. A Prologue to America. Edited with a Foreword by

Aldo P. Magi -- Croissant & Company.

l980.............. London Tower. Edited with a Preratory Note by Aldo P.

Magi -- Thomas Wolfe Society.

1982..............The Streets of Durham. Edited with a Prolegomenon

by Richard Walser -- Thomas Wolfe Society.

1983..............My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline

Bernstein. Edited by Suzanne Stutman -- University of

North Carolina Press.

1983..............Beyond Love and Loyalty: The Letters of Thomas Wolfe

and Elizabeth Nowell--Together with "No More Rivers,"

A Story by Thomas Wolfe -- University of North Carolina

Press.

1983.............Welcome to Our City: A Play in Ten Scenes. Edited by

Richard S. Kennedy -- Louisiana State University Press.

1983.............The Autobiography of an American Novelist, newly edited

versions of The Story of a Novel and Writing and Living

by Leslie Field -- Harvard University Press.

1983.............K-19: Salvaged Pieces. Edited John L. Idol, Jr. --

Thomas Wolfe Society.

1985.............Thomas Wolfe Interviewed, 1929-1938. Edited by Aldo P.

Magi and Richard Walser -- Louisiana State University Press.

1985..............Mannerhouse: A Play in a Prologue and Four Acts. Edited

by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and John L. Idol, Jr. -- Louisiana

State University Press.

1986..............Holding on for Heaven: The Cables and Postcards of Thomas

Wolfe and Aline Bernstein. Edited by Suzanne Stutman --

Thomas Wolfe Society.

1986...............The Hound of Darkness. Edited by John L. Idol, Jr. --

Thomas Wolfe Society.

1987...............The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe. Edited by

Francis E. Skipp -- Charles Scribner's Sons.

1989................The Starwick Episodes. Edited by Richard S. Kennedy --

Thomas Wolfe Society (Republished by Louisiana State

University Press, 1995).

1990................Thomas Wolfe's Composition books: The North State Fitting

School 1912-1915. Edited by Alice R. Cotten -- Thomas

Wolfe Society.

1991................The Good Child's River. Edited by Suzanne Stutman --

University of North Carolina Press.

1991................The Autobiogrphical Outline for Look Homeward, Angel.

Edited by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy -- Thomas

Wolfe Society.

1991..............."Nine Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 1924-1938." Edited with

commentary by Aldo P. Magi -- South Carolina Review, Vol.

23, No. 2.

1992..............."E1even More Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 1929-1938." Edited

with commentary by Aldo P. Magi -- South Carolina Review,

Vol. 24, No. 2.

1992................The Lost Boy. Edited by James W. Clark, Jr. -- University

of North Carolina Press.

1992................Thomas Wolfe's Notes on Macbeth: The University of North

Carolina, English 37, Winter Quarter. Edited by William

Grimes Cherry III -- Thomas Wolfe Society.

1994................[George Webber, Writer]: An Introduction by a Friend.

Edited by John L. Idol, Jr. -- Thomas Wolfe Society.

1995................The Party at Jack's. Edited by Suzanne Stutman and John

L. Idol, Jr. -- University of North Carolina Press.