gene wolfe's parents

turin · 06 Dec 2004, 22:47 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: turin at HELL.COM (turin)
Date: Mon Dec  6 22:47:01 2004
Subject: (urth) gene wolfe's parents
Message-ID: <20041207064659.B14A737CF1 at sitemail.everyone.net>

did gene wolfe lose his parents at an early age.  on his blog william gibson writes

Gene Wolfe once said that being an only child whose parents are dead is like being the sole survivor of drowned Atlantis. There was a whole civilization there, an entire continent, but it's gone. And you alone remember. That's my story too, my father having died when I was six, my mother when I was eighteen. Brian Aldiss believes that if you look at the life of any novelist, you'll find an early traumatic break, and mine seems no exception. 

Does anyone know where this is form or who he is talking about?

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