It was on this day in 1935 that Thomas Wolfe’s novel Of Time and the River (books by this author) (1935) was published. The manuscript for it was once as lengthy as Proust’s In Remembrance of Things Past; it was an epic tale composed of multiple volumes. His publisher at Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins, convinced him that it should be edited down to one volume. Wolfe dedicated that completed novel, Of Time and the River (1935), to Maxwell Perkins.

From Garrison Keillor and The Writer’s Almanac.