Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe
Wolfe selama acara Penghargaan Nebula di Chicago (2005)
Lahir	Gene Rodman Wolfe (1931-05-07)7 Mei 1931 New York City, Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	14 April 2019(2019-04-14) (umur 87) Peoria, Illinois, Amerika Serikat
Pekerjaan	Novelis, penulis cerita pendek
Almamater	Universitas Texas A&M Universitas Houston
Periode	ca 1966 – 2019
Genre	Fantasi fiksi ilmiah
Karya terkenal	The Book of the New Sun Solar Cycle[1] Soldier of Sidon
Pasangan	Rosemary Wolfe ​ ​ (m. 1952; wafat 2013)​

Gene Rodman Wolfe (7 Mei 1931 – 14 April 2019) adalah seorang penulis fiksi ilmiah dan fantasi asal Amerika Serikat. Ia terkenal karena prosa dan kiasan yang padat serta pengaruh kuat dari iman Katoliknya. Ia adalah penulis cerita pendek dan novelis yang produktif dan memenangkan banyak penghargaan sastra fantasi dan fiksi ilmmiah.^[2]

Kehidupan pribadi

Wolfe lahir di New York City, putra dari Mary Olivia dan Emerson Leroy Wolfe.^[3]

Buku mengenai Gene Wolfe

• The Wizard Knight Companion: A Lexicon for Gene Wolfe's The Knight and The Wizard: Michael Andre-Driussi (Sirius Fiction, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9642795-3-7), a dictionary of words and names from Wolfe's Wizard Knight novels
• Lexicon Urthus: Michael Andre-Druissi (Sirius Fiction, 1994, ISBN 0-9642795-9-2), a dictionary of the archaic words used by Wolfe in The Book of the New Sun
• The Long and the Short of It: More Essays on the Fiction of Gene Wolfe: Robert Borski (iUniverse, Inc., 2006, ISBN 978-0-595-38645-1)
• Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun": Robert Borski (iUniverse, Inc., 2004, ISBN 978-0-595-31729-5)
• Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice, and the Reader: Peter Wright (Liverpool University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-85323-818-9): Study of The Book of the New Sun and The Urth of the New Sun
• Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing / Writers on Wolfe: Peter Wright (Liverpool University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84631-058-4)
• Strokes: John Clute (Serconia Press, 1988, ISBN 0-934933-03-0)
• Gene Wolfe: An annotated bibliography and criticism on Wolfe's science fiction and non-fiction writing: Joan Gordon (Borgo Press, 2008, ISBN 0-930261-18-6)
• Gate of Horn, Book of Silk: A Guide to Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun and The Book of the Short Sun: Michael Andre-Driussi (Sirius Fiction, 2012, ISBN 0-9642795-5-X)

Referensi

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Wikiquote memiliki koleksi kutipan yang berkaitan dengan: Gene Wolfe.

• "Biografi Gene Wolfe". Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
• (Inggris) Gene Wolfe di Internet Speculative Fiction Database