Gary K. Wolf

Gary K. Wolf (born January 24, 1941 in Earlville, Illinois)^[2] is an American author and humorist.

Career

Gary Wolf is perhaps best known for a series of comedic mystery novels featuring the now famous Roger Rabbit, a cartoon character who inhabits an alternate universe where so-called "toons" (an abbreviation for the word "cartoons") and humans co-exist. The series begins with the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981), which was the basis of a popular movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

Wolf has a master's degree in advertising, given by the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Wolf and childhood friend John J. Myers, Catholic Archbishop of Newark, co-wrote a novel named Space Vulture, released from TOR books during 2008.^[3] Wolf and co-author Jehane Baptiste have a story named "The UnHardy Boys in Outer Space" in the annual anthology of humorous science fiction, Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3 (ISBN 1-894-95335-5).^[4]

Selected bibliography

• Killerbowl (September 26, 1975) (ISBN 0-385-04738-X)
• A Generation Removed (May 27, 1977) (ISBN 0-385-11549-0)
• The Resurrectionist (July 20, 1979) (ISBN 0-385-13141-0)
• Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981) (ISBN 0-345-30325-3)
• Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? (1991) (ISBN 0-679-40094-X)
• Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3 (December 1, 2006) (ISBN 1-89495-335-5)
• Space Vulture (March 4, 2008) (ISBN 0-765-31852-0)
• Penumbra eMag Vol 1 Issue 10 (July 2012) (ISBN 2163-4092)
• The Late Great Show! (October 5, 2012) (ISBN 978-1-61937-408-9)
• Typical Day (December 7,2012) (ISBN 978-1-61937-456-0)

References

Further reading

• "Wolf, Gary K. 1941—". Contemporary Authors 160. Gale Group. 1998. pp. 440–442. 

External links

• Official Site
• Space Vulture
• Gary K. Wolf at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database