Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born on October 2, 1900 in Asheville, North Carolina. His father, William Oliver Wolfe, a stonecutter, owned a marble - tombstone shop and was fascinated with stone angels, and had them shipped from Carrara, Italy. A pair of angels graced the porch of his shop.

Thomas left an indelible mark on American literature with his epic autobio-
graphical novel, Look Homeward, Angel. The classic has never gone out of print since its publication in 1929.

In Hendersonvlle, North Carolina a beautiful angel marks the grave of Margaret Bates Johnson who died in 1905. Hendersonville is close to Asheville where Wolfe spent his chidhood. In the book, Look Homeward, Angel, the town was renamed Altamont and served as the novel's locale.

Thomas Wolfe died on September 15, 1938 and was buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville. Of Time and the River, a continuation of Look Homeward, Angel and the last of two major novels, was published posthumously.

The angel in Oakdale Cemetery is the only one that resembles Wolfe's description of a stone angel. "...it had come from Carrara in Italy, and it held a stone lily delicately in one hand. The other hand was lifted in benediction, it was poised clumsily upon the ball of one phthisic foot (dacaying),..." His feelings of these the carved stone angels were feelings of fear and a deep seated melancholy in the pit of his soul. Unfortunately, while most people see angels of beauty, Wolfe saw them as something ugly, but ultimately inescapable.

~Mischievous Angel~

~Cupid With Arrows~

~Contending For Heart~
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