Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist, and won many literary awards. Wolfe has been called "the Melville of science fiction", and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–1983), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.
![Stephen King, D. H. Lawrence, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Algernon Blackwood, William Faulkner, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Clive Barker, Edith Wharton, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Matheson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Robert Bloch, M. R. James, Joanna Russ, 시어도어 스터전, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Ramsey Campbell, Edith Nesbit, David G. Hartwell, Thomas M. Disch, John Collier, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, Michael Shea, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Hichens, Dennis Etchison, Flannery O'Connor, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert W. Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien: The Dark descent (1987, T. Doherty Associates, [Distributed by St. Martin's Press])](/images/covers/966b6c7e-6a9c-429a-bbb5-995a4a6358d9.jpeg)
