BHA Invites You to Spend an Evening at Thomas Wolfe’s

By on November 22, 2010 11:01 pm in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents, Events, History

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Thomas Wolfe, the great North Carolinian novelist, captured (Heather Quinlan take note) the Brooklyn dialect of its time in his short story “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn”, which he wrote while living on Verandah Place in Cobble Hill. He later moved to Brooklyn Heights, where he wrote the novel Of Time and the River, published in 1935. It is said that he moved to Brooklyn from Manhattan to elude the jealous stockbroker whose wife had, for a time, been Wolfe’s mistress.

On Monday, December 6, starting at 8:00 p.m., as part of its Celebrating a Century series of events, the Brooklyn Heights Association will present “an intimate evening in the elegant brownstone where…Thomas Wolfe once lived and wrote.”

The event will feature biography, letters, and brief selections from some of his well-known works, but the heart of the evening will be his writing from the late ’20s in Brooklyn. These are works rarely heard and not much associated with Thomas Wolfe; they are short, some are funny, some are heart-breaking.

Neighbor and actor/filmmaker Chris Eigeman will direct. We will be joined by special guests. Refreshments will be served.

Tickets are $75 per person, and space is limited. If you wish to attend, please respond to rsvp@austeragency.com

This event is sponsored by Brennan Real Estate, LLC and Brennan Realty Services, LLC.

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  • Curious

    what street number on Verandah?

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    40 Verandah Place (see here; scroll down to entry for “1931 February”).

  • Curious

    Claude-thanks for the info. When I wen to go look at which building it is, Google Streetview has a big truck blocking the view.

  • AEB

    “…It is said that he moved to Brooklyn from Manhattan to elude the jealous stockbroker whose wife had, for a time, been Wolfe’s mistress….”

    Ah, for the days when the distance between Manhattan and Brooklyn was considered sufficient to protect one from vengeful husbands. Guess there wasn’t any texting then….

  • Ben

    The house is on Montague Terrece number 5 it had been renovated extensivly 2 times in recent years by one fromer owner Mark A. who was my neighbor it will be a grand party