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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... accepted even though he was one month short of the required age of six . The building was opened in 1888 , condemned in 1939 , and later destroyed ; this photograph was taken in 1904 . Elizabeth Bernard Hester , Thomas Wolfe's first ...
... spending much time or money . Wolfe accepted Miller's invitation to join them . The trip lasted from June 20 to July 2 , 1938 . Braden - Hatchett North Carolina Library Wolfe with a fish Last Trip to the West, May-September 1938.
... in Portland , Wolfe met Warren Wright , manager of the book department of the J. K. Gill Company , and accepted Wright's invitation to spend a few days at his cabin . The start of the national parks tour , June 20. Last Trip to the West ...
Contents
Birth | 15 |
Early Years 19001904 | 36 |
The Old Kentucky Home | 49 |
Copyright | |
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