H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells in 1920.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was born in Bromley, Kent. He studied biology under Thomas Henry Huxley.

Wells wrote about 50 books. He was one of the inventors of science fiction, and also wrote novels and utopias. He wrote books such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds. He also explained how the things he wrote about could actually happen. Some of his books have been made into movies.

Wells had diabetes. He died on 13 August 1946, aged 79, at his home in London. On 16 August 1946, his body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.

Biology

• The science of life. London: Cassell (1933). Co-writers: Julian Huxley and G.P, Wells.

Science fiction

• The Time Machine (1895)
• The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
• The Invisible Man (1897)
• The War of the Worlds (1898)
• The First Men in the Moon (1901)

Utopian books

• A Modern Utopia (1905)
• New Worlds for Old (1908)
• The World Set Free (1914)
• The Shape of Things to Come (1933)
• Guide for the New World (1941)
• Mind at the End of its Tether (1945)

Novels

• Love and Mr Lewisham (1900)
• Kipps (1905)
• Ann Veronica (1909)
• The History of Mr Polly (1910)

H. G. Wells Media

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  Young Wells, "Bertie" as he was known, c. 1870s

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  Wells spent the winter of 1887–88 convalescing at Uppark in Sussex, where his mother, Sarah, was the housekeeper.

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  Commemorative plaque in Midhurst, West Sussex, marking where Wells lodged while a teacher at Midhurst Grammar School between 1883 and 1884

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  Wells studying in London c. 1890

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  141 Maybury Rd, Woking, where Wells lived from May 1895 until late 1896

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  Wells's second wife, Amy Catherine "Jane" Wells

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  The H. G. Wells crater, located on the far side of the Moon, was named after the author of The First Men in the Moon (1901) in 1970.

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  Portrait photo of English writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946).

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  H. G. Wells, one day before his 60th birthday, on the front cover of Time magazine, 20 September 1926