HG Wells - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography (Read)

Herbert George Wells - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer, Actor.

September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England, UK - August 13, 1946 London, England, UK - English writer and publicist.

The future writer was the fourth and youngest child in the family. Father, Joseph Wells, and mother, Sarah Neal, worked in the past as a gardener and maid on a wealthy estate, and later became the owners of a small china shop. However, there was almost no income from the trade, and most of the family lived on the money that his father, as a professional cricketer, earned from the game. When the boy was eight years old, he was "lucky", as he himself put it, to break his leg. It was then that he became addicted to reading. At the same age HG Wells entered Mr Thomas Morley's commercial academy, which was to prepare him for the trade. However, when Herbert was thirteen years old, his father broke his hip and cricket was over. The teenager had to start an independent life.

Educated at King's College, University of London, graduating in 1888. By 1891 he received two degrees in biology, since 1942 he was a doctor of biology.

The first novel of the writer was published in 1895 and was called The Time Machine.

After apprenticeship with a manufactory merchant and working in a pharmacy, he was a teacher at a school, a teacher of exact sciences and an assistant to Thomas Huxley. In 1893 he took up journalism professionally.

From 1903 to 1909, Wells was a member of the Fabian Society, which advocated caution and gradualism in politics, science and public life. In 1933 he was elected President of the PEN Club.

Wells lived in London and the Riviera, gave frequent lectures and traveled extensively.

In total, over the course of 50 years of his creative activity, Wells wrote about 40 novels and several volumes of stories, more than a dozen polemical works on philosophical problems and about the same number of works on the restructuring of society, two world histories, about 30 volumes with political and social forecasts, more than 30 brochures on topics about Fabian society, armament, nationalism, world peace and more, 3 books for children and an autobiography. His works have been translated into many languages ??of the world.

Wells is considered the author of many popular themes in fiction in subsequent years.

More than a dozen plaques have been erected at the sites associated with Wells.

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