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What is the name of Wolfe's autobiographical character?

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Eugene Gant is the autobiographical character in Thomas Wolfe's novels. Gant appears in all four of Wolfe's major novels: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Of Time and the River (1935), The Web and the Rock (1939), and You Can't Go Home Again (1940). Gant is a complex and flawed character, but he is also a deeply passionate and idealistic man.
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