Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe is a 1987 biography of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald. It won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Harold Bloom called the book the definitive biography of Wolfe. Library Journal called the book the most successful of Wolfe's three biographies to that date (It had been preceded by Elizabeth Nowell's (1960) and Andrew Turnbull's (1967) books, both titled Thomas Wolfe: A Biography; other biographies have been published since). Publishers Weekly wrote that Donald documented Wolfe's life and work "[m]ore fully than any previous biographer." Leslie Field wrote that Donald writes of Wolfe in "incisive, graceful, and forceful style" and has many advantages that Wolfe's earlier biographers did not, including access to material, letters, and papers that