I didn't like all the story lines of his books, but very real favorites of mine have ALWAYS BEEN the hundreds of poetic passages I have marked in all of THOMAS WOLF's voluminous novels. His books told the same rather autobiographical story over and over (and over and over) with different names given to the main characters. But absolutely nothing surpassed his flights and flocks of word birds when they took off and headed for the stratosphere. You can hear his great influence in the best of Jack Kerouac's writing as well as in some of Ray Bradbury's works. Bob Dylan too---as in "Tambourine Man".

Art Thieme