The largest representative of the "lost generation" Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) is part of a galaxy of writers who formed American prose in the 20-30-ies of XX century. Contemporaries put him on a par with Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Although the creative activity of Wolfe lasted only a decade, he left a bright mark in the history of us literature. His first novel "Look at your home, angel" is not only a chain of events closely following the life situation of the author, but also a biography of the spirit, telling about the rapid "education of feelings", about love and hatred, about the passionate attachment to the Motherland and escape from it and, finally, about the creative torments of the writer. "It is not people who run away from life because it is boring, but life runs away from people because they are shallow" (Thomas Wolfe).