Look Homeward, Angel

Eventually he went to live in a New York suburb with a wealthy couple who sent him to a private boys school, where his roommate introduced him to Thomas Wolfe’s autobiographical novel, “Look Homeward, Angel.”

Among his favorite books was Thomas Wolfe’s coming-of-age novel “Look Homeward, Angel”; Ferlinghetti applied to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he said later, because Wolfe had gone there.

“Look Homeward, Angel,” by Thomas Wolfe, remains the most brilliant expression of contemporary human alienation ever written.

Wolfe is known for books including “Look Homeward, Angel.”

Wolfe wrote four novels, including “Look Homeward, Angel,” published in 1929.