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Tom Wolfe Called Her 'Sheba'

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9222
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Abstract:
Hortense Roberts Pattison of Asheville was the inspiration for the character of Sheba in Thomas Wolfe's LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL. One of Wolfe's early teachers, Pattison first read his work in 1911. She died at the age of eighty-seven.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 47 Issue 1, June 1979, p18-20, il, por