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Thomas Wolfe entered UNC in 1916 and graduated in June 1920. In Chapel Hill he edited the student newspaper and played the title role in his own play The Return of Buck Gavin, staged by the Carolina Playmakers in March 1919. His first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, was published on October 8, 1929.
Source: NCpedia: Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
1900–1938 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
43 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 4 works by Thomas Wolfe. 3 held at OCPL →
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Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical first novel, the coming-of-age story of a boy in a North Carolina mountain town modeled on Asheville, which follows him to the state university at Chapel Hill. This Scribner edition, 622 pages with twelve leaves of plates, carries the subtitle a story of the buried life. Topics include Asheville and Chapel Hill fiction, boys, families and mountain life in North Carolina.
Thomas Wolfe's student writing from his years at the University of North Carolina, 1917 to 1920, gathered in one volume by the University of South Carolina Press in 2008. The pieces date from his undergraduate time at Chapel Hill. Sixteen preliminary pages and 134 pages of text, with illustrations.
Facsimiles of the composition books Thomas Wolfe kept as a schoolboy at the North State Fitting School between 1912 and 1915, published in Chapel Hill in 1990 by the North Caroliniana Society with the Thomas Wolfe Society. 82 pages with illustrations, in a limited printing of six hundred copies for Wolfe Society members and three hundred more from the North Caroliniana Society.
Thomas Wolfe's title, issued by the University of North Carolina Press at Chapel Hill in 1991, long after the author's death in 1938 as the dates in his name record show. This copy is an uncorrected page proof marked for reviewers.
Judith M. Panitch's illustrated account of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1992 and 2004, published by the library in 2004. It is a history of the academic library, and the notes point out its references to the Aldo P. Magi collection of Thomas Wolfe material. 50 pages with color illustrations in an oblong format.
Albert Coates's address of welcome to the entering class at the University of North Carolina School of Law, printed in 1983 as a 16-page pamphlet; a 1976 version also exists. It includes a letter from Thomas Wolfe, the novelist and Coates's friend from their Chapel Hill student days.
Steven Stolpen's pictorial history of Chapel Hill, one of the Donning Company's photographic town histories, published in Norfolk, Virginia in 1978. Photographs and portraits carry the story of the town and the university, including references to Thomas Wolfe's years as a student at Carolina. 156 pages with illustrations.
Daniel W. Barefoot arranges first-hand recollections of the University of North Carolina by decade, from the 'infant university' of the 1790s through the Civil War years when promise turned to despair, the rebuilding of the 1870s, the 'frosh' life of the 1880s, wartime fame in the 1940s, the controversies of the 1960s and the bicentennial of the 1990s. Thomas Wolfe's student years appear among the voices. Published by John F. Blair of Winston-Salem in 2008, 257 pages.
Jessie Rehder, who taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina, assembled this 1967 anthology of fiction and prose by writers connected with Chapel Hill for UNC Press. Among the pieces are Wallace Kaufman's 'Regard me well', a piece by Frances Gray Patton anatomizing the Southern belle, and early groundwork by Reynolds Price for his first novel; Thomas Wolfe also figures in it. 215 pages.
A twenty minute videodisc of the dedication ceremony for the Thomas Wolfe memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded on October 3, 2006 and issued by the university's Department of English and Comparative Literature. In sound and color. Wolfe, the novelist who graduated from the university in 1920, is commemorated by the monument the ceremony dedicated.
A speakers directory from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued in 1994 in twenty four pages with portraits, listing faculty available to address groups. Quotations from Thomas Wolfe's letters about his favorite Chapel Hill professors run through the booklet, and the cover carries a drawing of Wolfe by William G. Mangum of the class of 1958.
An account of the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill and of Henry Horace Williams, the university teacher whose home it was. Published in the town in 1989, it concerns historic buildings in Chapel Hill, university faculty biography and novelist Thomas Wolfe.
A Japanese study of the novelist Thomas Wolfe, 1900 to 1938, published in Tokyo by Kenkyusha in 1966 in a second printing. Topics include criticism of Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River and the rest of his fiction, and a supplement laid in at the end carries an essay on Wolfe and Chapel Hill. 284 pages with plates.
A folder of twelve items making up the attendee packet for the thirty sixth annual meeting of the Thomas Wolfe Society, which met in Chapel Hill from 23 to 25 May 2014. The packet includes the conference schedule, a participant list, brochures and maps of Chapel Hill, and minutes of several committees. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Gladys Hall Coates on the life of Thomas Wolfe, a talk given at the Chapel Hill Museum on 16 November 1999. Wolfe was a UNC student before he became a novelist. Cassette from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
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Picture: Thomas Wolfe, 1937. Public domain. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress; via Wikimedia Commons
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