Question

Describe the house where the author lived during his childhood

Answer 1

Author Tom Wolfe grew up in Richmond in the 1930s and ’40s in a small frame house that his father built and his parents lovingly landscaped with boxwoods and magnolias. It stands today at 3307 Gloucester Rd., beneath towering shade trees, in a neighborhood that may have grown more crowded but no less comfortable than in Wolfe’s youth.

If an unhappy childhood is supposed to be a gift for a writer, it was one of the few that Wolfe lacked. In 1991, a man who bought Wolfe’s childhood home sent the author a picture of it, and Wolfe responded with a beautiful, wistful reminiscence of his time there.