Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) is among America's greatest novelists. One of his most acclaimed books, “You Can't Go Home Again,” takes place just prior to the stock market crash of '29. George Webber has ...

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, ...

THE LOST COUNTRY (599 pp.)—J. R. Salamanca—Simon & Schuster ($5). When Hero Jim Blackstarr does any talking, he is all corn pone and hominy grits: “Look, Betty Lee, it i’n’t goin’ to be like this all ...

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 ...

FAMILY MATTERS: Despite public outcry over his 1929 debut novel, Look Homeward, Angel, local residents were still eager to know what Thomas Wolfe had planned next. As pressure mounted to deliver his ...

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 ...

ASHEVILLE - From "The French Broad" by Wilma Dykeman to "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary award has sought to bring attention to the literature of Western North ...

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 ...