Julia Wolfe, 85, talks about her son, American author Thomas Wolfe (1945)

A curiosity of sorts.... Julia Wolfe, 85, mother of American author Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), speaks in 1945 with Hollywood radio host Tom Breneman about her late son. Julia Wolfe, so the story goes, appears as Eliza Gant in her son's early autobiographical novels. A sound recording of Thomas Wolfe, if one actually exists, has yet to surface. Many consider Wolfe America's best... and worst writer. The label has a handwritten dedication to a friend (James F. Mark? Monk?) and is signed by Wolfe's sister, Mabel Wolfe Wheaton.
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 -- September 15, 1938) was a major American novelist of the early 20th century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on American culture and mores of the period, albeit filtered through Wolfe's sensitive, sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective. He became very famous during his own lifetime. (wikipedia)
Thomas Breneman Smith (June 18, 1901 -- April 28, 1948) was a popular 1940s American radio personality known to his listeners as Tom Breneman. Born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Breneman was host of the show Breakfast in Hollywood which aired on the Blue Network, ABC, NBC and Mutual at various times from 1941 to 1948. Breneman's program went through numerous title changes but was best known as Breakfast in Hollywood (1948-49). By the mid-1940s, Breneman had ten million listeners. The popularity of the radio program was such that he created his own magazine, and in 1945 he opened his own establishment, Tom Breneman's Restaurant, located on Vine Street off Sunset Boulevard. He died in Encino, California in 1948. Breneman has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (wikipedia)
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