Editing Gene Wolfe (section)

==Personal life==
Wolfe was born in New York City, the son of Mary Olivia ({{Nee|Ayers}}) and Emerson Leroy Wolfe.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.bookrags.com/Gene_Wolfe/ |title=Gene Wolfe Summary |publisher=BookRags.com |date=November 2, 2010 |access-date=December 30, 2013}}</ref> He had [[polio]] as a small child.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm |title=Larry McCaffery, "On Encompassing the Entire Universe: An Interview with Gene Wolfe" |publisher=Depauw.edu |access-date=December 30, 2013}}</ref> He and his family moved to Houston when he was 6, and he went to high school and college in [[Texas]], attending [[Lamar High School (Houston)|Lamar High School]] in Houston. While attending [[Texas A&M University]], he published his first speculative fiction in ''The Commentator,'' a student literary journal.{{efn|name=two1951|group=notes|1=The [[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]] catalogs two 1951 stories.<ref name=isfdb/>}} Early in his writing career, Wolfe exchanged correspondence with [[J. R. R. Tolkien]].<ref>''The Annotated Hobbit'', 2002 revised and expanded edition, p. 146 n.9; see also Wolfe's [http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html "The Best Introduction To The Mountains"] {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20040113063643/http%3A//home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html |date=January 13, 2004 }}</ref> 

Wolfe dropped out during his junior year and subsequently was drafted to fight in the [[Korean War]].<ref name="AutobiographicalSketch">[http://www.baens-universe.com/authors/Gene_Wolfe Autobiographical sketch] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20061021102340/http://www.baens-universe.com/authors/Gene_Wolfe |date=October 21, 2006 }}</ref> After returning to the United States, he earned a degree from the [[University of Houston]] and became an industrial engineer. He was a senior editor on the staff of the journal ''[[Plant Engineering]]'' for many years<ref>See the article "Gene Wolfe's time at Plant Engineering", on the [http://ultan.org.uk/plant-engineering/ Ultan's Library] website.</ref> before retiring to write full-time, but his most famous professional engineering achievement is a contribution to the machine used to make [[Pringles]] potato chips.<ref name="PersonInterview">{{cite journal|title=Suns new, long, and short: an interview with Gene Wolfe |author=Lawrence Person |date=Fall–Winter 1998 |journal=Nova Express |volume=5 |issue=1 |url=http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/wolfe.html |access-date=December 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/wolfe.html |archive-date=September 16, 2009 }}</ref>

Wolfe lived in [[Barrington, Illinois]], a suburb of [[Chicago]], with his wife Rosemary where they raised four children. Wolfe also has three granddaughters. The Wolfes moved to [[Peoria, Illinois]] in 2013. Wolfe underwent double [[Coronary artery bypass surgery|bypass]] surgery on April 24, 2010.<ref>{{cite web|author=Locus Publications |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/04/gene-wolfe-recovering-from-heart-surgery/ |title=Locus Online News » Gene Wolfe Recovering from Heart Surgery |publisher=Locusmag.com |date=April 27, 2010 |access-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref> 

Wolfe also underwent cataract surgery on his right eye in early 2013. Wolfe's wife, Rosemary, died on December 14, 2013, after a series of illnesses<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael Swanwick |url=http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-farewell-to-rosemary.html |title=Flogging Babel: A Farewell to Rosemary |publisher=Floggingbabel.blogspot.com |date=December 16, 2013 |access-date=December 30, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Rosemary Wolfe (b.1931) |url=http://www.sfsite.com/news/2013/12/16/obituary-rosemary-wolfe/ |title=SF Site News » Obituary: Rosemary Wolfe |publisher=Sfsite.com |date=December 16, 2013 |access-date=December 30, 2013 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417105954/https://www.sfsite.com/news/2013/12/16/obituary-rosemary-wolfe/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> including [[Alzheimer's disease]]. Wolfe said, "There was a time when she did not remember my name or that we were married, but she still remembered that she loved me."<ref name="new-yorker-2015">{{cite news|last1=Bebergal|first1=Peter|title=Sci-Fi's Difficult Genius|url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 24, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210610150027/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sci-fis-difficult-genius|archive-date=June 10, 2021}}</ref>

Wolfe died at his Peoria home from [[cardiovascular disease]] on April 14, 2019, at the age of 87.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pjstar/obituary.aspx?n=gene-wolfe&pid=192401181&fhid=14962|title = Gene Wolfe Obituary (1931 - 2019) Peoria Journal Star|website = [[Legacy.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/|title=Author and Grand Master Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019|last=Tor.com|date=April 15, 2019|website=Tor.com|language=en-US|access-date=April 15, 2019}}</ref>