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The Thomas Wolfe House, also known as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, is a state historic site, historic house and museum located at 52 North Market Street in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. The American author Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) lived in the home during his boyhood.
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]
Thomas Wolfe at work in Whitson's cabin, Oteen, in the summer of 1937. Sitting at the table with his sleeves rolled up, and with plenty of blank paper and an open carton of Chesterfield cigarettes ...
Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site. The Thomas Wolfe Memorial is closed "indefinitely" after a tree fell on the famed novelist's childhood home. "Due to the intense winds brought on by ...
You Can't Go Home Again is a novel by Thomas Wolfe published posthumously in 1940, extracted by his editor, Edward Aswell, from the contents of his vast unpublished manuscript The October Fair. It is a sequel to The Web and the Rock , which, along with the collection The Hills Beyond , was extracted from the same manuscript.
At the Thomas Wolfe House, where a ticket for the tour of the Boarding House costs $5, they sell about 8,000 tickets a year, according to a staffer.
The boarding house run by Eugene Gant's mother, based on one run by Wolfe's mother, has been called "the most famous boardinghouse in American fiction." [1] The title of Thomas Wolfe's novel comes from the John Milton poem "Lycidas": "Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth." (163–164)
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.