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Asheville native Thomas Wolfe achieved international fame with the publication of his first full-length novel, Look Homeward, Angel, in 1929. Many incidents in the book took place in his mother's boardinghouse, Old Kentucky Home, which he called Dixieland. A large man in both stature and accomplishment, Wolfe left big shoes to fill.
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