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 ...

BEST ROOM IN THE HOUSE: Kayla Seay, assistant site director at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, poses inside the sun parlor. Of the 29 rooms inside the historic house, this is her favorite space. Photo by ...

DURING his early days in New York, Wolfe used to write in bound ledgers opened on top of the icebox, so that he stood at his work like a factory hand. Later he wrote at a table, using ordinary sheets ...

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 ...

THOMAS WOLFE’S LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER—Scribner ($3). The father of the late novelist Thomas Clayton Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River) was a stonecutter of great rhetorical influence ...

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, ...

In iQ3’5 Novelist Thomas Wolfe dedicated his Of Time and the River to Scribner’s Editor Maxwell Perkins who launched him on his career. The dedication called “Max” Perkins “a great editor and a brave ...

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 ...