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wolfe in 1937 , photo by carl van vechten 15 september 1938 baltimore , maryland , usa asheville , north carolina , united states 200px american '' and the river '' '' you ca n't go home look again '' '' the web and the rock '' homeward , angel '' '' of time 3 october 1900 thomas wolfe signature.svg fiction , drama thomas wolfe 1937 1.jpg thomas wolfe
 thomas wolfe author university of north carolina harvard
thomas wolfe

thomas clayton wolfe -lrb- october 3 , 1900 -- september 15 , 1938 -rrb- was a major american novelist of the early twentieth century .
wolfe wrote four lengthy novels , plus 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 american culture and mores of the period , albeit filtered through wolfe 's sensitive , sophisticated and hyper-analytical perspective .
he became very famous during his own lifetime .
after wolfe 's death , his contemporary william faulkner said that wolfe may have had the best talent of their generation .
wolfe 's influence extends to the writings of famous beat writer jack kerouac , authors ray bradbury and philip roth , among others .
he remains one of the most important writers in modern american literature , as he was one of the first masters of autobiographical fiction .
he is considered north carolina 's most famous writer .
