Thomas Wolfe

Also known as Thomas Clayton Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., Tom Wolfe

American writer

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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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Person · Open Library

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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Film & TV

Writing · Asheville, North Carolina, USA

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1900
Active to: 1938

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 42
Total plays: 547

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 160,574x
The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,845x
U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 57,307x
STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,579x
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,749x

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Quotes

“Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.”
“It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.”
“The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.”
“Nacreous pearl light swam faintly about the hem of the lilac darkness; the edges of light and darkness were stitched upon the hills. Morning moved like a pearl-gray tide across the fields and up the hillflanks, flowing rapidly down into the soluble dark.”
“And it was this that awed him — the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.”
“Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas.”

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date of birth: 1900-10-03
date of death: 1938-09-15
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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.