1900 - 1938
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early 20th century.Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodic, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Wolfe has received more than 3,635,666 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Thomas Wolfe is the 418th most popular writer (up from 604th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from United States (up from 588th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Writer.
Thomas Wolfe is most famous for his autobiographical novel, "Look Homeward, Angel."
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Among writers, Thomas Wolfe ranks 418 out of 5,794. Before him are Jacques Hébert, Ivan Goncharov, Ennius, Sergei Yesenin, Julio Cortázar, and Traudl Junge. After him are Thomas Bernhard, André Maurois, Osamu Dazai, G. K. Chesterton, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Phaedrus.
1757 - 1794
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 412
1812 - 1891
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 413
239 BC - 169 BC
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 414
1895 - 1925
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 415
1914 - 1984
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 416
1920 - 2002
HPI: 75.33
Rank: 417
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 418
1931 - 1989
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 419
1885 - 1967
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 420
1909 - 1948
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 421
1874 - 1936
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 422
1811 - 1863
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 423
20 BC - 50
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 424
Among people born in 1900, Thomas Wolfe ranks 21. Before him are Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Jacques Prévert, Heinrich Müller, Dennis Gabor, and Sándor Márai. After him are Hans Fritzsche, Hans Adolf Krebs, Jan Oort, Giorgos Seferis, Kurt Weill, and Eyvind Johnson. Among people deceased in 1938, Thomas Wolfe ranks 14. Before him are Béla Kun, Faustina Kowalska, Kanō Jigorō, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karl Kautsky, and Robert Johnson. After him are Carl von Ossietzky, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Muhammad Iqbal, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Mary Mallon.
1900 - 1982
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 15
1900 - 1949
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 16
1900 - 1977
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 17
1900 - 1945
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 18
1900 - 1979
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 19
1900 - 1989
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 20
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 21
1900 - 1953
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 22
1900 - 1981
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 23
1900 - 1992
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 24
1900 - 1971
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 25
1900 - 1950
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 26
1900 - 1976
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 27
1886 - 1938
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 8
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 9
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 11
1854 - 1938
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 12
1911 - 1938
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 13
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 14
1889 - 1938
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 15
1881 - 1938
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 16
1891 - 1938
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 17
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 18
1863 - 1938
HPI: 74.12
Rank: 19
1869 - 1938
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 20
Among people born in United States, Thomas Wolfe ranks 402 out of 15,968. Before him are Paulette Goddard (1910), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Boris Johnson (1964), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Jeff Bridges (1949), and Janet Leigh (1927). After him are Sharon Stone (1958), Little Richard (1932), Doris Day (1922), Mike Tyson (1966), Richard Kiel (1939), and Peter Fonda (1940).
1910 - 1990
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 396
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 397
1964 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 398
1957 - 2012
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 399
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 400
1927 - 2004
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 401
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 402
1958 - Present
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 403
1932 - 2020
HPI: 75.30
Rank: 404
1922 - 2019
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 405
1966 - Present
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 406
1939 - 2014
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 407
1940 - 2019
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 408
Among writers born in United States, Thomas Wolfe ranks 43. Before him are Paul Auster (1947), Richard Bach (1936), Philip Roth (1933), Alvin Toffler (1928), Gertrude Stein (1874), and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804). After him are Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Sylvia Plath (1932), Tom Clancy (1947), Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), William S. Burroughs (1914), and Louisa May Alcott (1832).
1947 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 37
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 38
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 39
1928 - 2016
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 40
1874 - 1946
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 41
1804 - 1864
HPI: 75.42
Rank: 42
1900 - 1938
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 43
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 44
1932 - 1963
HPI: 75.03
Rank: 45
1947 - 2013
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 46
1875 - 1950
HPI: 74.94
Rank: 47
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 48
1832 - 1888
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 49