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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...