Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce among many other literary greats have employed the form.

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Genius, which will star Colin Firth and Michael Fassbender, is a literary drama based on the relationship between writer Thomas Wolfe and his editor Max Perkins.

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Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.

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