Thomas Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe is one of the greatest writers of the 20th-century. Wolfe was born on October 3, 1900 at 92 Woodfin Street, Asheville, North Carolina. His parents are William Oliver Wolfe and Julia E. Westall. Julia Wolfe was an enterprising and resourceful woman who worked hard to improve her family’s economic position. She was a successful real estate speculator. She accepted boarders at the Woodfin Street house and wheeled and dealed in the real …showed first 75 words of 515 total…

…showed last 75 words of 515 total…believed Wolfe had tuberculosis of the brain. On September 12 he operated, in a last ditch effort to save Wolfe's life. He found the entire right side of Wolfe's brain was covered with tubercles. There was nothing that could be done. On September 15, 1938, never having regained consciousness, Thomas Wolfe died. He was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina. Wolfe's frantic rush to do all, see all, and write it all down had proved tragically correct.