Gene Wolfe (1931–2019)
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Gene Wolfe was born in New York City on May 7, 1931. He dropped out of Texas A&M University during his junior year and was drafted into the Army to fight in the Korean War. After the war, he received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston. He worked as an industrial näytä lisää engineer for Procter and Gamble, where he developed the machine that cooks the dough used to make Pringles potato chips. He was an editor of the trade journal Plant Engineering from 1972 to 1984 before retiring to become a full-time writer. He wrote more than 30 books during his lifetime including The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, The Book of the New Sun, and The Land Across. He received the Campbell Memorial Award, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, the Locus Award four times, and the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award two times each. In 1996, he was given the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007 and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012. He died after a long battle with heart disease on April 14, 2019 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Wolfe, Gene Rodman
- Syntymäaika
- 1931-05-07
- Kuolinaika
- 2019-04-14
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Peoria, Illinois, USA
- Kuolinsyy
- cardiovascular disease
- Asuinpaikat
- Barrington, Illinois, USA
- Koulutus
- Texas A&M University
University of Houston - Ammatit
- mechanical engineer
editor
novelist
short-story writer
soldier - Organisaatiot
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Catholic Church
Plant Engineering, Editor
Proctor & Gamble, Engineer - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1996)
SF Hall Of Fame (2007)
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1989)
SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2012)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Fuller Award (2012)
SFWA Grand Master (2013) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Fought in Korean War. Formerly an industrial engineer, he was on the design team that developed the manufacturing process for the Pringle potato chip - his responsibility was the machine that cooks them. Also editor of the engineering trade journal Plant Engineering.
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