Gene Wolfe is an American writer born in 1931. He published his first novel (Operation Ares) in 1970 and his most recent title is 2012’s Home Fires. He is perhaps best known for The Book of the New Sun (M), a four volume epic story describes as “a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis” – Publishers Weekly.
Wolfe’s other best known work is Peace (M), first published in 1975 and reprinted many times since.
He has won many many writing awards, including multiple Locus and Nebula awards.
“It’s not that Gene Wolfe is, in the opinion of many (and I am one of the many), our finest living science fiction writer. It is that he is, in the opinion of the Washington Post (and of me, too) one of our finest living writers. He has been our uncrowned Grand Master for a long time, and now the rest of the world will know as well.”