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By 1906, when Wolfe's mother, Julia E. (Westall) Wolfe (1860–1945), bought the house, it was a boarding house named "Old Kentucky Home". She soon went to live at her business with Tom, while the other Wolfes remained at their Woodfin Street residence. Wolfe lived at the boarding house until he went to the University of North Carolina in 1916 ...
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [1] [2] He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. [1]
The people who bought lots and built in the Montford area in its building prime were for the most part middle class individuals who carried out the day-to-day activities of the city—businessmen, lawyers, doctors, and a few architects. Several residents found immortality in Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical Look Homeward, Angel. Early city ...
View of E. Max Whitson's cabin in the woods of Oteen, where Thomas Wolfe spent some of the summer of 1937. Chamber of Commerce photo. Print donated 1998 by John F. Barber.
The sale, for the construction of the city's new YMCA building, included Thomas Wolfe's birthplace, where his father, W.O. Wolfe, had built a home. Visiting our Past: Look back to '68 in Asheville ...
Thomas Wolfe's father, William Oliver Wolfe, was a tombstone supplier and provided the cemetery's eight pieces of "funeral art", made of stone imported from Italy. An old mill stone was used in the grave marker for Barber's Orchard owner, R.N. Barber. There are other distinctive artistic grave markers in the cemetery. [1]
Leslie Ann Keller, married to Graham Ramsey, grandson of D. Hiden Ramsey, recalls hearing D. Hiden's lectures on his friend, Thomas Wolfe.
This list of books about Thomas Wolfe (1900 – 1938) includes biographies, literary criticism, and like books. Wolfe is widely considered to be a major American novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century, and some critics consider some of his work to be worthy of inclusion in the American literary canon.