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Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. 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. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the Americ…
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culture · American novelist (1900–1938) · writer · poet · novelist · prose writer · essayist · dramaturge · playwright · also Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Clayton Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Wolfe
Born 3 October 1900 · Died 15 September 1938 · Q314256
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2026· 2 entries
Asheville Watchdog: Answer Man: Mold and peeling paint in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium? Replacement plan still moving? Could railroad tracks in south Asheville become a bike path?
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel Portfolio Project Files
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2016· 1 entry
In which Jude Law and Colin Firth played the roles of Wolfe and Perkins respectively
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2000· 2 entries
On the centennial of Wolfe's birth
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In celebration of Wolfe's 100th birthday
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1998· 1 entry
200 of the house's 800 original artifacts and the house's dining room were destroyed by a fire set by an arsonist during the Bele Chere street festival
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1987· 1 entry
And his short stories were later published in several anthologies, including American Classics (1989, Marshall Cavendish), The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar, by the Great American Writers
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1978· 1 entry
A CBS television movie of "You Can't Go Home Again" starred Lee Grant and Chris Sarandon
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1972· 1 entry
It was presented as a television drama, as was Of Time and the River in a one-hour version
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1958· 1 entry
Ketti Frings adapted Look Homeward, Angel into a play of the same name
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1949· 1 entry
To be Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville, North Carolina
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1938· 5 entries
Died 1938-09-15.
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“Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.”
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After submitting over one million words of manuscript to his new editor, Edward Aswell, Wolfe left New York for a tour of the Western United States
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“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
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“America... It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”
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1937· 2 entries
“I am going into the woods. I am going to try to do the best, the most important piece of work I have ever done”
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"Chickamauga", his short story set during the American Civil War battle of the same name, was published
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1936· 2 entries
Witnessed incidents of discrimination against Jews, which upset him and changed his mind about the political developments in the country
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Bernard DeVoto, reviewing The Story of a Novel for Saturday Review, wrote that Look Homeward, Angel was "hacked and shaped and compressed into something resembling a novel by Mr
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1934· 1 entry
Maxim Lieber served as his literary agent
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1930).
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1925· 1 entry
Met Aline Bernstein (1880–1955), a scene designer for the Theatre Guild
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1924· 1 entry
Near Azalea Road was designated as a historic landmark by the Asheville City Council in 1982
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1922· 1 entry
Wolfe received his master's degree from Harvard
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1919· 1 entry
Wolfe enrolled in a playwriting course
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1906· 1 entry
Julia Wolfe bought a boarding house named "Old Kentucky Home" at nearby 48 Spruce Street in Asheville, taking up residence there with her youngest son while the rest of the family remained at the Woodfin Street residence
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-10-03.
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