Editing Thomas Wolfe (section)

==Posthumous works==
Wolfe saw less than half of his work published in his lifetime.<ref name="critical reception2">{{cite book | title =  Thomas Wolfe, The Critical Reception | last = Reeves | first = Paschal | year = 1974 | orig-year = 1974 | publisher = Ayer Publishing | isbn =0-89102-050-0 | page = xviii }}</ref> Two novels, ''[[The Web and the Rock]]'' and ''[[You Can't Go Home Again]]'', were edited posthumously by [[Edward Aswell]] of Harper & Brothers. The novels were "two of the longest one-volume novels ever written" (nearly 700 pages each).<ref name="time 1940">{{cite magazine | title =  Books: Burning, Burning, Burning | magazine = Time | date = September 23, 1940 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,802021,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080915052033/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,802021,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = September 15, 2008 | url-access=subscription | access-date = November 10, 2009 }}</ref> In these novels, Wolfe changed the name of his autobiographical character from Eugene Gant to George Webber.<ref name="time 1940"/>

''O Lost'', the original "author's cut" of ''[[Look Homeward, Angel]],'' was reconstructed by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] scholar [[Matthew Bruccoli]] and published in 2000 on the centennial of Wolfe's birth. Bruccoli said that while Perkins was a talented editor, ''Look Homeward, Angel'' is inferior to the complete work of ''O Lost'' and that the publication of the complete novel "marks nothing less than the restoration of a masterpiece to the literary canon".<ref name="nytimes 2000"/>