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Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe Biography

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Name: Thomas Clayton Wolfe
Birth Date: October 3, 1900
Death Date: September 15, 1938
Place of Birth: Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Place of Death: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, writer, playwright

Dictionary of Literary Biography on Thomas (Clayton) Wolfe

Best known for his four novels-- Look Homeward, Angel (1929); Of Time and The River (1935); The Web and The Rock (1939); and You Can't Go Home Again (1940)-- Thomas Wolfe was also the author of an impressive body of short fiction, published in collections including From Death to Morning (1935), The Hills Beyond (1941), The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe (1961), and The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe (1987). Much of Wolfe's short fiction is of a piece with that published in longer form: it is autobiographical in nature and poetic in impulse, and it depicts Wolfe's vision of human isolation and estrangement. Unlike the longer fiction, the shorter works demonstrate Wolfe's increased ability in his later years to impose order and form upon his materials. Indeed, the artistic merit of some of his novellas exceeds that of any of the novels, with the possible exception of Look Homeward, Angel.

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