Taught English at the Washington Square College of New York University. Sailed aboard the Lancastria in October, his first trip to Europe, landed in England.

Visited Paris and traveled in France, Italy, Switzerland. Returned to England. August--sailed home aboard the Olympic. Met Aline Bernstein on ship when almost home. Taught in the fall at Washington Square College of New York University.

Second trip to Europe. June--sailed aboard the Berengaria. Traveled with Aline Bernstein to/in France and England. Stayed in London. Started working on Look Homeward, Angel, which was then called “The Building of a Wall.” First visit to Germany--December. Returned home on the Majestic. Arrived in New York on December 29.

Worked on Look Homeward, Angel for six months. July--sailed aboard the George Washington--third trip to Europe. Traveled to/in France, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia with Aline Bernstein. September--sailed home on Belgenland. Continued teaching at Washington Square College of New York University.

Finished the manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel. Engaged Madeleine Boyd as his agent. June--sailed aboard the Rotterdam. Fourth trip to Europe. Landed at Boulogne. Traveled in France, Belgium, and Germany. Received the fateful letter from Maxwell Perkins regarding publishing Look Homeward, Angel while in Vienna. December--sailed home from Naples aboard the Vulcania.

Stopped teaching at Washington Square College of New York University. March--awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. May 10--sailed aboard the Volendam--his fifth trip to Europe. Traveled in France, Switzerland and Germany. October--settled in London.

February--sailed home aboard the Europa. Rented a Brooklyn apartment. Wrote . . . wrote . . . wrote . . . wrote.

March 2--sailed aboard the Ile de France--sixth trip to Europe.  March 8--Of Time and the River published. Visited Germany. Was heralded as the great new American writer while in Germany. Sailed home aboard the Bremen.  July 4—arrived in New York. Met by his editor, Maxwell Perkins. Went with Perkins and at sunset gazed down from the roof of the Prince George Hotel at the magnificence of the harbor and the city.  It was the most exhaltant day in all of Wolfe’s life, the day about which he reminded Perkins from a Seattle hospital in the last letter he was ever to write: “I shall always think of you and feel about you the way it was that Fourth of July three years ago when you met me at the boat, and we went out on the café on the river and had a drink and later went on top of the tall building, and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life and of the city was below.”

April 21--The Story of a Novel published. Bernard De Voto’s attack “Genius Is Not Enough” appeared in Saturday Review of Literature. Seventh and last trip--sailed aboard the Europa--attended the Olympic Games in Berlin. Visited Austria with Thea Voelcker. September 17—sailed home aboard the Paris. Quarreled with Maxwell Perkins. December 26--left New York for trip to New Orleans and met William B. Wisdom.