Walking around downtown Asheville, you can find pieces of author Thomas Wolfe’s history, from his boyhood home on Market Street, which is now a museum, to the angel statue in Pack Square. His first ...

FAMILY MATTERS: Despite public outcry over his 1929 debut novel, Look Homeward, Angel, local residents were still eager to know what Thomas Wolfe had planned next. As pressure mounted to deliver his ...

Monday was Thomas Wolfe's birthday. The writer from Asheville had a talented father who sculpted tombstones. Today, several works of W.O. Wolfe are found at Green Hill Cemetery in Waynesville. One of ...

Asheville’s local hero, renowned autobiographical novelist, Thomas Wolfe, is perhaps best known for his voluminousness, why use one word when you can use one hundred. In contrast, D. Hiden Ramsey, ...

MAN PERKINS, Scribner’s great editor, first heard the name Thomas Wolfe in September. 1928, when Madeleine Boyd, a literary agent, who had come to see him on other business, kept bringing up “a ...

THOMAS WOLFE (441 pp.)—Elizabeth Nowell—Doubleday ($5.95). Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees ...

The death last week of Thomas Clayton Wolfe shocked critics with the realization that, of all American novelists of his generation, he was the one from whom most had been expected. He had almost ...

BETWEEN Julian R. Meade, the late Danville, Virginia, writer, and Tom Wolfe there were ties such as drew Wolfe to few of his younger contemporaries. Julian, a Southerner like Tom, talented and highly ...