Facts: - imagesize: 200px - period: c. 1966 -- present - caption: wolfe 2005 -lrb- a 2004 '' nominee '' -rrb- during nebula awards weekend in chicago , april - birth name: gene rodman wolfe - notableworks: solar cycle - influences: marcel , g. k. chesterton , jorge luis borges , robert proust aickman , herman melville , vladimir nabokov , edgar rice , burroughs , geoffrey chaucer , arthur conan doyle , lewis jack carroll , r. a. lafferty , charles dickens , george vance orwell , j. r. r. tolkien , james joyce , , vernor vinge , h. g. wells h. p. lovecraft - genre: fantasy , science fiction - influenced: neil gaiman , china mieville , michael swanwick - birth date: 7 may 1931 - name: gene wolfe - nationality: american - image: gene wolfe , 2005.png - birth place: new york city - occupation: novelist , short-story writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of gene wolfe .
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gene rodman wolfe -lrb- born may 7 , 1931 -rrb- is an american science fiction and fantasy writer .he is noted for his dense , allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his catholic faith .he is a prolific short-story writer and novelist and has won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards .wolfe is most famous for '' the book of the new sun '' -lrb- four volumes , 1980 -- 83 -rrb- , the first part of his solar cycle .in 1998 , '' locus '' magazine ranked it third-best fantasy novel before 1990 -lrb- after '' the lord of the rings '' and '' the hobbit '' -rrb- based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries .