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When Thomas Wolfe (1900 - 1938) died, he left behind an eight-foot-high stack of unpublished manuscripts.  "If ever there was a writer who didn't need a biographer, that writer is Thomas Wolfe," said his editor, Maxwell Perkins.  Look Homeward, Angel, published in 1929, could be considered autobiography or pure fiction.  Wolfe himself wrote in his note to the reader, "If the writer has used the clay of life to make his book, he has only used what all men must, what none can keep from using."

~ Source:  WRITERS IN RESIDENCE, Glynne Robinson Betts, The Viking Press, 1981.