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Thomas Wolfe
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American writer
Thomas Wolfe was an American writer known for his novels that explored themes of ambition, belonging, and the American experience. His most famous work, "Look Homeward, Angel," is considered a significant contribution to 20th-century literature for its experimental narrative style and deeply personal examination of a young man's life and desires.
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- Born
- 1900
- Died
- 1938
- Works
- 487
Top works
- Soldiers three
- From death to morning
- No villain need be
- Der Schimmelreiter
- Right off the map
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- Given name
- Thomas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Asheville
- Place of death
- Baltimore
- Occupation
- playwright
- Educated at
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Employer
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Look Homeward, Angel
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- Thomas Wolfe
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- date of birth
- 1900-10-03
- date of death
- 1938-09-15
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. He was one of the pioneers of autobiographical fiction, and along with William Faulkner, he is considered one of the most important authors of the Southern Renaissance within the American literary canon. He has been dubbed "North Carolina's most famous writer."
Wolfe wrote four long novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written and published from the 1920s to the 1940s, vividly reflect on the American culture and mores of that period, filtered through Wolfe's sensitive and uncomfortable perspective.
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