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Born 1915, Connecticut, US.
"After getting a degree in psychology at the Yale University, he abandoned the idea of becoming a psychoanalist and passed through a variety of experiences, including being the secretary and bodyguard of Leon Trotsky while he was exiled in Mexico (he left the job before the leader was murdered).
"He later enlisted in the merchant marine, was war correspondent for Popular Science , freelance writer and journalist. He lived for a period in Cuba and wrote novels, scripts and non-fiction,
including an important book on jazz, Really the Blues , and an autobiography, Memoirs of a Not Altogether Shy Pornographer .
"With bright and provocative spirit, he continued collaborating with various magazines, pursuing strange projects, including a movie with Tony Curtis and Hugh Hefner entitled Play-Boy , never realized.
"Limbo is his masterpiece and, if we exclude 3 or 4 beautiful tales, represents his unique, masterly raid in the territories of philosophical fiction. With this novel, Wolfe throws an ideal bridge between the dystopias of Huxley and Orwell and the great season of postmodern SF, showing to be one of the greatest and original precursors of literature of the end of the millennium." -- (translated from the italian by Antonio Colombo).
Died 1985, Los Angeles, Californis, US.
La Fantascienza Nel Mondo
(Italian site... contains info about Bernard Wolfe)
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