Thomas Clayton Wolfe

                                            

Thomas Wolfe was born on october,3,1900 in Asheville,North Carolina and died on september 15,1938 in Maryland.

People  known him for his amazing writing scilles .

He went to the University of North Charleston ,Harvard.

His earlier life:

Thomas parents are William Oliver Wolfe  and Julia Elizabeth Westall.

Thomas had 7 siblings,he is the youngest of all of them.

His father, was a successful stone carver, he had a gravestone business. His mother took in boarders and was looking for the kids.

                                                  Picture:Thomas and his mother

Career:

Thomas had no change to sell any of his plays for a long time,peoples weren't interesstet.Peoples wanted to see his play on the stage but he thought it's more fiction. He sailed to Europe in October 1924 to continue writing. His first place was England after that he traveled to France, Italy and Switzerland. In 1925, he met Aline Bernstein on his way back home . Bernstein was married to a successful men with whom she had two children.

In October 1925 Wolfe  and Bernstein became lovers .  He returned back to Europe in the summer of 1926 and began to write the first version of a novel, (O Lost) A novel  that shows his early experiences in Asheville,  

The original writing of O Lost was over 100 pages and 66,000 words longer than the final edited version. 

When the novel was published, Wolfe gave  it to Bernstein. Soon after the  book's publication, Wolfe returned to Europe and ended his affair with Bernstein.  Wolfe stayed away from asheville for 8 years and lived in Europe for 1 year.

Then he went to Brooklyn for 4 years and worked on his writing.Then he published his second novel The october Fair. 

Wolfe spent much time in Europe and was really popular in Germany, where he made many friends.  Wolfe returned to America and published a short story  called "I Have a Thing to Tell You"

 In the summer of 1937 ,it was the first time he returned back to Asheville.

Death:

Wolfe became ill with pneumonia while visiting Seattle,he had to spent 3 weeks in the hospital there. 

On September 6, he was sent to an other hospital were he had a life saving brain operation.Everything went well but then 18 days before his 38 th birthday he had to die His last writing, was journal of one of his two-week trips he had done. 

Thomas Wolfe's grave is in , Asheville, North Carolina, beside his parents and his siblings.