Looking Homeward: A Thomas Wolfe Photo AlbumAmerican novelist Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) led a short but turbulent life. His writing was almost purely autobiographical, poignantly capturing his experiences and pursuits. Wolfe had a gift for illuminating his life so that the reader could almost visualize his painful youth and tumultuous manhood. Now, for the first time, in Looking Homeward, Morton Teicher lets us see all of the real-life people and places behind the fiction of Thomas Wolfe in a collection of 245 snapshots that chronicle this great writer's life in a way that mere words cannot. Wolfe's family and friends took a remarkable number of photographs, and Teicher has spent decades collecting these images. With photos ranging from W.O. Wolfe, Thomas's strong-willed father, to Aline Bernstein, the older, married womand Wolfe desperately loved, from Wolfe's hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, to the hospital where he died, Teicher has compiled a comprehensive photographic history of Thomas Wolfe. Childhood photographs and snapshots of siblings, friends, teachers, and editors are shown, as well as Wolfe's many vacation photos. Looking Homeward is complete with images of the original dust jackets for Wolfe's books and a section on artistic renderings of Wolfe. With captions and an introduction that indicate the parallels between the life and the fiction, as well as a chronology, this book will be pure pleasure for any Wolfe fan and an important resource for students of literature. Teicher has provided an engrossing sequence of looks at one of America's great novelists. |
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... Collection , now at the University of North Carolina Library , Chapel Hill Therese Brewer The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions , Baltimore , Maryland James C. Cleary North Carolina Department ...
... Collection of Thomas Wolfe The Mariners ' Museum , Newport News , Virginia Paula J. Maute National Portrait Gallery , Smithsonian Institution , Washington , D.C. New - York Historical Society , New York City Collection of the Humanities ...
... collection are uneven in quality , but they show Wolfe as a serious experimenter in fiction . His mastery of the short story is demonstrated in " Only the Dead Know Brooklyn , " " In the Park , " and " Death the Proud Brother . " While ...
Contents
Birth | 15 |
Early Years 19001904 | 36 |
The Old Kentucky Home | 49 |
Copyright | |
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