A Catholic Encyclopedia also had said : `` at the present day , it is freely admitted that Solomon is not the writer of the Book of Wisdom , which has been ascribed to him because its author , through a literary fiction , speaks as if he were the Son of David . '' Says the Catholic Encyclopedia : `` at the present day , it is freely admitted that Solomon is not the writer of the Book of Wisdom , which has been ascribed to him because its author , through a literary fiction , speaks as if he were the Son of David . ''