Herbert George Wells English author and political philososopher,
most famous for his science-fantasy novels with their prophetic
depictions of the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors
of 20th-century warfare. Wells was born September 21, 1866, in
Bromley, Kent, and educated at the Normal School of Science in
London, to which he won a scholarship. He worked as a draper's
apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until 1895, when he
became a full- time writer. Wells's 10-year relationship with
Rebecca West produced a son, Anthony West, in 1914. In the next
50 years he produced more than 80 books. His novel The Time
Machine mingled science, adventure, and political comment. Later
works in this genre are The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds,
and The Shape of Things to Come; each of these fantasies was made
into a motion picture. Wells also wrote novels devoted to
character delineation. Among these are Kipps and The History of
Mr. Polly,......

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