movement death_date death_place birth_place nationality name birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
american romanticism 3 april 1946 raleigh , north carolina , united states shelby , north carolina , confederate states of america american thomas f. dixon , jr. . 11 january 1864 historical fiction portrait of thomas dixon , jr.jpg thomas dixon , jr. .
 thomas frederick dixon , jr. novelist lecturer , playwright , minister , state legislator ,
thomas dixon , jr. .

thomas frederick dixon , jr. -lrb- january 11 , 1864 -- april 3 , 1946 -rrb- was a southern baptist minister , playwright , lecturer , north carolina state legislator , lawyer , and author , perhaps best known for writing `` the clansman '' -- which was to become the inspiration for d. w. griffith 's film , `` the birth of a nation '' -lrb- 1915 -rrb- .
he was a prominent supporter of the republican party and donor to theodore roosevelt 's campaign for mayor of new york .
