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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Benjamin Cone Papers on Thomas Wolfe (#CW2.7), North Carolina Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Donated by Anne Cone Liptzin of Chapel Hill, N.C., July 1999.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Authors, American--North Carolina--20th century.
• Boyd, Madeleine Elise Reynier.
• Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.
• Cone, Benjamin, 1899-1982.
• Literary agents--United States.
• Nowell, Elizabeth.
• Turnbull, Andrew, 1921-
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--20th century.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Appreciation.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Biography.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Friends and associates.
• Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938.

Benjamin Cone was born in 1899, a member of the prominent Cone family of Greensboro, N.C. He was a friend of Thomas Wolfe while both were students at the University of North Carolina. Cone graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1920; he was mayor of Greensboro, 1949-1951. He died in 1982.

The collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, and other items chiefly relating to Benjamin Cone and Thomas Wolfe. Included is correspondence between Cone and others about Wolfe. Among the correspondents are Wolfe's literary agent and first biographer Elizabeth Nowell and Wolfe biographer Andrew Turnbull. Also included are photocopies of Wolfe's letters to Benjamin Cone, recollections of Wolfe by Albert Coates and Madeleine Boyd, an article about Cone and Wolfe, clippings related to Wolfe, a photograph of unidentified people taken by H. G. Jones, and a copy of Richard Walser's Thomas Wolfe Undergraduate (1977).