http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newcentury/5752?_sm_byp=iVVj1W14Hl36SFrm http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-wolfe-38959?_sm_byp=iVVj1W14Hl36SFrm http://www.nchistoricsites.org/wolfe/album.htm?_sm_byp=iVVj1W14Hl36SFrm Thomas Wolfe was born in October 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina. He went to UNC then later to Harvard. Thomas was the youngest out of eight children. His mother was a part of a boarding home and his father was a stone cutter. At a very young age, he was fascinated with books. He started to know more about Asheville and the mountains through the books. Thomas Wolfe is famous for his 4 lengthy novels that he made as well as short stories, etc. The specific accomplishments of Thomas Wolfe are he edited The Tar Heel, UNC's student newspaper, and won the Worth Prize for Philosophy for his essay "The Crisis in Industry." He made many great novels like his most famous Look Forward, Angel. He went to Harvard and UNC The Social norms were he was isolated from society in the …show more content…
He was very smart and could read at a very young age. He loved literature from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and Herman Melville. He went to UNC and Harvard for college. The Roberts were teachers at a private school and they were a huge influence on getting Thomas to where he was. He grew up in the mountains of Asheville so he was very isolated and contained.. His mom was apart of a boarding school and His dad was a stonecutter (upper class family). He had three sisters and four brothers. He was the youngest of them all. His mom was very protective of him. His mom kept in in the boarding school at a young age, which helped his development. Leslie Wolfe, who was the first of the the eight children but died just nine months after her birth. At the beginning of Thomas’s junior year of college, his brother Ben, who looked after Tom most of his life, died at the age of twenty-six. Thomas was devastated but still stuck to