(Clayton) (1900-1938) US novelist. He is noted for the unrestrained rhetoric and emotion of his prose style. He wrote four long and hauntingly powerful autobiographical novels, mostly of the South: Look Homeward, Angel 1929, Of Time and the River 1935, The Web and the Rock 1939, and You Can’t Go Home Again 1940 (the last two published posthumously).
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Wolfe studied playwriting at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. He settled in New York City, with hopes of becoming a dramatist. His first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, was a realistic, brutal view of the South and Southern family life, the result of six years of work with Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins. He also wrote The Story of a Novel 1936 and the short-story collections From Death to Morning 1935 and The Hills Beyond 1941. + prikaži više