Lu Wenfu(Chinese: ???, March 23, 1927 - July 9, 2005)was a contemporary Chinese writer.
He was interested in literature from an early age and devoted all his life into it.
He worked for many years as journalist and a magazine editor and served as president of the Jiangsu Writers' Association (zh:??????, ??????) and vice president of the Chinese Writers' Association (zh:??????, ??????).
Lu's life ended in Suzhou, his favorite city in Jiangsu province.
All his work is a mirror of this old city and that's why his novels are generally regarded as Suzhou literature.
He is famous for his first story Deep within a Lane (????).
From then on, Lu started producing a lot of fictions and essays.