Thomas wolfe brief biography of thomas
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Thomas Wolfe (1900 – 1938)
Thomas Wolfe, born in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 3, 1900, experienced a varied life while in North Carolina, Europe, and New York. One of seven children to Julia Westall and William Oliver Wolfe, Thomas’s childhood was often strained due to his father’s heavy drinking and his mother’s bitterness toward her husband. However, William learned from his father the love of language, whether it be the Appalachian mountain vernacular or the lofty poetry of the Elizabethan era. Thomas’s somewhat troubled childhood and his parents’ domestic problems provided the material for his magnus opus, Look Homeward, Angel (1929).
Wolfe was an avid reader as well as an intelligent writer, and he was educated at the North State Fitting School, the University of North Carolina, and Harvard University. From 1905 to 1912, Thomas attended school in Asheville, and in 1916, when he was only fifteen years old he was admitted to the University of North Car
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North Carolina’s most famous and perhaps greatest writer, Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), was born in Asheville, the eighth child of a Pennsylvania stonecutter and his third wife, a hill-country school teacher. Wolfe grew up in his mother’s boarding house. An exceptional student, he started public school before he was six, and at age eleven transferred at his teachers’ request to a private school. He entered the University at Chapel Hill at fifteen “an awkward, unhappy misfit.” By the time he graduated, he was editor of the college newspaper and had seen several of his plays produced by the Carolina Playmakers. Planning to become a dramatist, he went to Harvard, then to New York, where no one would produce his very long plays. To “buy time,” he took a job teaching at New York University. During a 1926 trip to Europe, he began writing down his early memories of Asheville. He abandoned playwriting, and after three years of writing, revision and ed
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Thomas Wolfe
(1900-1938)
Who Was Thomas Wolfe?
Thomas Wolfe was a notable American novelist from the early 20th century. He first attended the University of North Carolina and then Harvard University before moving to New York City in 1923. It was there that he wrote his most popular work, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), an autobiographical del av helhet centering on his alter ego, Eugene Gant. Wolfe followed with four novels over the following eight years and had more than 10 works published after his untimely death in 1938.
Early Years
Thomas Wolfe was born on October 3, 1900, in Asheville, North Carolina, to a stonecutter father and a mother who owned a boardinghouse. After attending a private prep school, Wolfe enrolled in the University of North Carolina in 1916. There he began his writing career, penning and acting in several one-act plays. Wolfe also edited The Tar Heel, UNC's lärling newspaper, and won the Worth Prize for Philosophy for his essay "The Crisis in Industr