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parks in the West, the only part of the country he had never visited. Wolfe wrote to Aswell that while he had focused on his family in his previous writing, he would now take a more global perspective. In July, he became ill with pneumonia while visiting Seattle, spending three weeks in the hospital there. His sister Mabel closed her boarding house in Washington, D.C. and went to Seattle to care for him. Complications arose, and Wolfe was eventually diagnosed with
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21st century academics have largely rejected this negative assessment, and a more positive and balanced assessment has emerged, combining renewed interest in his works, particularly his short fiction, with greater appreciation of his experimentation with literary forms, which has secured Wolfe a place in the literary canon.
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Wolfe wrote four long novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on the American
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Though he was acclaimed during his lifetime as one of the most important American writers, comparable to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, or William Faulkner, Wolfe's reputation as a writer was heavily criticized after his death. He was ridiculed by such prominent critics as Harold Bloom and
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I shall always think of you and feel about you the way it was that Fourth of July day three years ago when you met me at the boat, and we went out on the cafe 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
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In 1938, 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. On the way, he stopped at Purdue University and gave a lecture, "Writing and Living", and then spent two weeks traveling through 11 national
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In 1906, 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. Wolfe lived in the boarding house on Spruce Street until he went to
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After Wolfe's death, Faulkner said that he might have been the greatest talent of their generation, aiming higher than any other writer. Faulkner's endorsement, however, failed to win over mid to late 20th century critics and for a time Wolfe's place in the literary canon was questioned. However,
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in Asheville hosts the Thomas Wolfe Collection which "honors Asheville's favorite son". The Western North Carolina Historical Association has presented the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award yearly since 1955 for a literary achievement of the previous year. The Thomas Wolfe Society celebrates
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His was one of the most confident young voices in contemporary American literature, a vibrant, full-toned voice which it is hard to believe could be so suddenly stilled. The stamp of genius was upon him, though it was an undisciplined and unpredictable genius ... There was within him an unspent
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listed Wolfe as the ablest writer of their generation, although Faulkner later qualified his praise. Despite his early admiration of Wolfe's work, Faulkner later decided that his novels were "like an elephant trying to do the hoochie-coochie". Ernest Hemingway's verdict was that Wolfe was "the
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A cabin built by Wolfe's friend Max Whitson in 1924 near Azalea Road was designated as a historic landmark by the Asheville City Council in 1982. Thomas Wolfe Cabin, as it is called, was where Wolfe spent the summer of 1937 in his last visit to the city. In a letter to
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Wolfe saw fewer than half of his work published in his lifetime, there being much unpublished material remaining after his death. He was the first American writer to leave two complete, unpublished novels in the hands of his publisher at death. Two Wolfe novels,
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Twenty-first century scholars have largely rejected the overly negative criticism of Wolfe from the mid to late 20th century. This re-assessment of Wolfe began in the 1980s with writers like Leslie Fields whose entry on Wolfe in the
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of Harper & Brothers. The novels were "two of the longest one-volume novels ever written" (nearly 700 pages each). In these novels, Wolfe changed the name of his autobiographical character from Eugene Gant to George Webber.
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at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Each October, at the time of Wolfe's birthday, UNC-Chapel Hill presents the annual Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture to a contemporary writer, with past recipients including
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before ultimately rejecting it, and Wolfe found his writing style more suited to fiction than the stage. He sailed to Europe in October 1924 to continue writing. From England he traveled to France, Italy and Switzerland.
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was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and Germany. Some members of Wolfe's family were upset with their portrayal in the book, but his sister Mabel wrote to him that she was sure he had the best of intentions.
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Wolfe was born in Asheville, North Carolina, the youngest of eight children of William Oliver Wolfe (1851–1922) and Julia Elizabeth Westall (1860–1945). Six of the children lived to adulthood. His father, of
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On his deathbed and shortly before lapsing into a coma, Wolfe wrote a letter to Perkins. He acknowledged that Perkins had helped to realize his work and had made his labors possible. In closing he wrote:
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was performed twice at Harvard during his graduate school years, in Zurich in Switzerland during the 1950s, and by the Mint Theater in New York City in 2000 in celebration of Wolfe's 100th birthday.
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In 1922, Wolfe received his master's degree from Harvard. His father died in Asheville in June of that year. Wolfe studied another year with Baker, and the 47 Workshop produced his 10-scene play
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thought Wolfe produced some brilliant fragments from which "several fine novels might be written". He went on to say: "And meanwhile it may be well to recollect that Shakespeare merely wrote
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wrote: "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."
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thought the book would be twice as good if half as long, but stated Wolfe was "the only contemporary writer who can be mentioned in the same breath as Dickens and Dostoevsky".
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wrote that the novel was "the product of an immense exuberance, organic in its form, kinetic, and drenched with the love of life...I rejoice over Mr. Wolfe". Both in his 1930
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that Wolfe had produced "as interesting and powerful a book as has ever been made out of the drab circumstances of provincial American life". An anonymous review published in
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Wolfe visited New York City again in November 1923 and solicited funds for UNC, while trying to sell his plays to Broadway. In February 1924, he began teaching
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Two universities hold the primary archival collections of Thomas Wolfe materials in the United States: the Thomas Clayton Wolfe Papers at Harvard University's
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energy, an untiring force, an unappeasable hunger for life and for expression which might have carried him to the heights and might equally have torn him down.
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W. O. Wolfe's business used an angel in the window to attract customers. Thomas Wolfe "described the angel in great detail" in a short story and in
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that while he was not sure what he thought of the book, "for decades we have not had eloquence like his in American writing". Malcolm Cowley of
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Wolfe graduated from UNC with a bachelor of arts in June 1920, and in September, entered Harvard University, where he studied playwriting under
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Wolfe's mother took in boarders and was active in acquiring real estate. In 1904, she opened a boarding house in St. Louis, Missouri, for the
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Thomas Wolfe's interest in Germany was rooted in fairy tales, an early admiration of Goethe, and his father's Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
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The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar, by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow
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The Thomas Wolfe Society, established in the late 1970s, issues an annual publication of Wolfe-related materials, and its journal,
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and that the publication of the complete novel "marks nothing less than the restoration of a masterpiece to the literary canon".
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features scholarly articles, belles lettres, and reviews. The Society also awards prizes for literary scholarship on Wolfe.
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was "hacked and shaped and compressed into something resembling a novel by Mr. Perkins and the assembly-line at Scribners".
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in 1933 and 1934 as the short stories, "No Door" and "The House of the Far and Lost"; later become part of his full-length
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who was Baker's graduate assistant. Wolfe later based the character of Francis Starwick in his semi-autobiographical novel
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Wetzsteon, Ross, "Republic of Dreams Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960, Simon & Schuster, 2003, p. 415
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fraternity, he predicted that his portrait would one day hang in New West near that of celebrated North Carolina governor
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Robert, Terry (January 18, 2011). "Wolfe, Thomas". In Shaffer, Brian W.; Ball, John Clement; O'Donnell, Patrick (eds.).
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Wolfe began to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) when he was 15 years old. A member of the
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Wolfe returned to Europe in the summer of 1926 and began writing the first version of an autobiographical novel titled
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street festival. The perpetrator remains unknown. After a $ 2.4 million restoration, the house was re-opened in 2003.
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were performed by Baker's 47 Workshop in 1921. While taking Baker's 47 Workshop course he befriended the playwright
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and has been open to visitors since the 1950s, owned by the state of North Carolina since 1976 and designated as a
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James Wood. At one time he was left out of college courses and anthologies devoted to great writers. Faulkner and
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and published in 2000 on the centennial of Wolfe's birth. Bruccoli said that while Perkins was a talented editor,
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The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor
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was over 1,100 pages (333,000 words) long, and considerably more experimental in style than the final version of
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The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor
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honored Wolfe with a postage stamp on the occasion of what would have been Wolfe's 100th birthday in 2000.
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as an instructor at New York University (NYU), a position he occupied periodically for almost seven years.
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and won the Worth Prize for Philosophy for an essay titled "The Crisis in Industry". Another of his plays,
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This article is about the early 20th-century writer. For the late 20th- and early 21st-century writer, see
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was published in 1987, and his short stories were later published in several anthologies, including
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culture and mores of that period, filtered through Wolfe's sensitive and uncomfortable perspective.
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of the first half of the 20th century. His enduring reputation rests largely on his first novel,
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Wolfe was unable to sell any of his plays after three years because of their great length. The
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After four more years writing in Brooklyn, the second novel Wolfe submitted to Scribner's was
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Kennedy, Richard S. (1994). "A Portrait of Kenneth Raisbeck". In Kennedy, Richard S. (ed.).
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Zahlan, Anne R. (2015). "Teaching Thomas Wolfe in the twenty-first century: a roundtable".
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Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction: Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe
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The Mountains: A Play in One Act; The Mountains: A Drama in Three Acts and a Prologue
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Wolfe's relationship with his editor Maxwell Perkins was the basis of a movie titled
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On September 6, he was sent to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment by
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The novel, which had been dedicated to Bernstein, was published 11 days before the
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North Carolina Office of Archives and History - A Brief Biography of Thomas Wolfe
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North Carolina Office of Archives and History - A Brief Biography of Thomas Wolfe
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within the American literary canon. He is North Carolina's most famous writer.
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The Thomas Wolfe Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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A Western Journal: A Daily Log of the Great Parks Trip, June 20–July 2, 1938
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Southerner and Harvard historian David Herbert Donald's biography of Wolfe,
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Millichap, Joseph R. (2021). "Chapter 3: Thomas Wolfe's Southern Railroad:
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in the same year. In 1972, it was presented as a television drama, as was
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When published in the UK in July 1930, the book received similar reviews.
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Wolfe spent much time in Europe and was especially popular and at ease in
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Beyond Love and Loyalty: The Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Elizabeth Nowell
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Wolfe's writings and publishes an annual review about Wolfe's work. The
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Margaret E. Roberts (Mrs. John Munsey Roberts), Buncombe County Library
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credits Wolfe for his famous phrase "Fear and Loathing" (on page 62 of
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was influenced by Wolfe, and included him as a character in his books.
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To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe–Maxwell Perkins Correspondence
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Hamlet." Warren also praised Wolfe in the same review, though, as did
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descent, was a successful stone carver and ran a gravestone business.
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Horace Kephart and Thomas Wolfe's "abomination," Look Homeward, Angel
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My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein
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Dixie Limited: Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance
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and Wolfe are considered the two most important authors of the
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in Asheville, North Carolina, beside his parents and siblings.
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acceptance speech and original press conference announcement,
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The "Old Kentucky Home" was donated by Wolfe's family as the
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Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including
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Thomas Wolfe's Albatross: Race and Nationality in America
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Bruccoli, Matthew J.; Baughman, Judith S., eds. (2004).
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In 1937, "Chickamauga", his short story set during the
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Works by Thomas Wolfe at Project Gutenberg Australia
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The Loneliness and the Core: Studies in Thomas Wolfe
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played the roles of Wolfe and Perkins respectively.
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It is now the 295:, 48 Spruce Street in Asheville 3310:Donald, David Herbert (1987). 2991:Boyle, John (March 14, 2017). 2293:"Notes on 'A Western Journey'" 2148:"Thomas Wolfe's "Old Catawba"" 1730:Boyle, John (April 24, 2020). 1723: 1690: 1621: 1599:"Thomas Wolfe's Final Journal" 1374:(1983; published posthumously) 1368:(1956; published posthumously) 1362:(1951; published posthumously) 1311:(1970; published posthumously) 1305:(1948; published posthumously) 1266:(1939; published posthumously) 1170:(1991; published posthumously) 1162:(1986; published posthumously) 1156:(1941; published posthumously) 1148:(1940; published posthumously) 1140:(1939; published posthumously) 1043:nominations, and won the 1958 1018: 681:The New York Times Book Review 620:, were edited posthumously by 489:served as his literary agent. 1: 3806:Novelists from North Carolina 3330:Thomas Wolfe: A Writer's Life 3321:Thomas Wolfe: A Writer's Life 3293:Max Perkins: Editor of Genius 3129:, Retrieved September 3, 2012 2299:. 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(1993). 2203:"Resurrecting Thomas Wolfe" 1884:Bruccoli, Matthew (2004) . 1746:– via newspapers.com. 1420: 1366:The Letters of Thomas Wolfe 1190: 938: 909: 688:magazine compared Wolfe to 353:. Two versions of his play 10: 3837: 1987:December 15, 2010, at the 1762:November 19, 2010, at the 1321: 1274:A Portrait of Bascom Hawke 1197:A Portrait of Bascom Hawke 1069:'s 1962 bestselling novel 973:National Historic Landmark 701:Nobel Prize for Literature 447:stock market crash of 1929 18: 3776:Harvard University alumni 3659: 3632: 3613: 3570: 3543: 3486:The Thomas Wolfe Web Site 3253:Turnbull, Andrew (1967). 3069:October 20, 2016, at the 2840:Reid, Robin Anne (2000). 2755:. Pegasus Books. p.  2624:The South Carolina Review 2589:Reeves, Paschal (1974) . 2523:. 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Index

Tom Wolfe
Thomas Wolf
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1937
Carl Van Vechten
Asheville, North Carolina
Baltimore
Riverside Cemetery
University of North Carolina
Harvard University
Look Homeward, Angel
Of Time and the River
You Can't Go Home Again
The Web and the Rock

novelist
Look Homeward, Angel
autobiographical fiction
William Faulkner
Southern Renaissance
Jack Kerouac
Ray Bradbury
Philip Roth
Pennsylvania Dutch
World's Fair
typhoid fever

Thomas Wolfe House
Thomas Wolfe Memorial
Look Homeward, Angel
Dialectic Society

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