• American Literature
• Short Prose

• Type: Mezzobula
• Length: 95 pages

The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe tells the story of Grover and his trip to the 1904 St Louis World's Fair. The story opens in Altamont which is based on Wolfe's hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. - AsNotedIn

• Theme Group: Literary North Carolina
• Theme Group: Southern School Literature
• Theme Group: Typhoid Fever

Places

• Buncombe County Courthouse, Asheville Light came and went and came again, the booming strokes of 3 o'clock beat out across the town from the courthouse bell, light winds of April blew the fountain out in rainbow sheets, until the plume returned and pulsed, as Grover turned into the Square.
• Forest Park Southeast Historic District, City of St Louis Eugene said he did not know, but that King's Highway was a block or so away, and that an interurban line ran past about half a block from where he once had lived.
• St Louis Union Station, City of St Louis Then we came out and walked around some more, down to the Union Station and clear over to the river. And both of us half scared to death at what we'd done and wondering what mama would say if she found out.
• Washington Avenue Historic District, City of St Louis So we got on the car and rode the whole way down into the business section of St Louis. We got out on Washington Street and walked up and down. And I tell you, boy, we thought that that was Something. Grover took me into a drug store and set me up to sod