Thomas Wolfe, a twentieth century author, who lived through a catastrophic and expanding era. He experienced World War I, The Great Depression, and a variety of technologic innovations. His experience with WWI stemmed from his mother who opened a boarding house for WWI victims. This boarding house allowed Wolfe to meet a variety of people who were victims of the war and tuberculosis. However, it also affected his childhood because his parents were too busy to spend time with him. These experience led Wolfe to his novel Look Homeward, Angel, which continue to influence literature in the local Asheville area. Wolfe “was born on October 3,1900” (Moore). Wolfe’s mom had seven children with Thomas being the youngest. He was a son “to Julia Wolfe, the ambitious wife of a tomb stonecutter, William Oliver Wolfe- and grew up in a boarding house runned by his mother in the mountain town of Asheville, North Carolina”(Moore). Wolfe’s mother bought a boarding house where she took Thomas and her other …show more content…
He was taken X-rays of his lungs and he had contracted a rare strain of tuberculosis. “Wolfe wrote much about diseases, especially TB,in his autobiographical masterpiece, Look Homeward, Angel”(Lathan). Wolfe writing about tuberculosis was expected since his hometown Asheville had hospitals and treated patients all across the state. His mother also had in her boarding house tuberculosis patients. His disease was spreaded up into his brain that he was infested with myriads of tubercules. There was nothing more that could be done. “Wolfe never regained consciousness and died on September 15,1998,at John Hopkins Hospital”(Lathan). It was a tragic event for his family and people who loved Wolfe. Edward Aswell took his unfinished manuscript and carved it into his