Edward Aswell

[2][3] Aswell was graduated from Harvard University in 1926[1] and worked as an assistant editor for The Atlantic Monthly and then Harper & Brothers Publishers, where he eventually became editor-in-chief.

Two years later You Can't Go Home Again and the short story collection The Hills Beyond were published, also edited by Aswell.

In 1947 Aswell gained significant control over the Thomas Wolfe estate, succeeding Maxwell Perkins.

Aswell curated this correspondence and contributed "An Introduction to Thomas Wolfe" for the abridged Look Homeward, Angel published by the New American Library.

Aswell's correspondence with Elizabeth Nowell, Thomas Wolfe's literary agent, was collected in the 1988 book In the Shadow of the Giant.