Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931, New York, New York, U.S.—died April 14, 2019, Peoria, Illinois) was an American writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy. Known for his dense style, narrative complexity, and use of unreliable narrators, Wolfe acquired a reputation as a formidable literary artist while working mostly within the traditions of genre fiction. Fellow science fiction authors held Wolfe in especially high regard; Ursula K. Le Guin called him “our Melville,” and...