H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, where his parents kept a shop selling china and cricket equipment. When he was seven he broke his leg and spent months reading. His family's money troubles led to apprenticeships as a draper's assistant, which he disliked. He won a scholarship to study science in London, where he was taught by the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, and he worked as a teacher and journalist. His first novel, The Time Machine (1895), about a traveler who journeys far into the future, was followed by The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898), in which Martians invade England. These stories helped create modern science fiction and predicted ideas such as space travel, tanks and aerial warfare. He also wrote comic novels about ordinary lives, such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, a best-selling Outline of History, and many books on politics and the future. He supported socialism and world government. He died in London in 1946.

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Faith: His mother was a Protestant and his father a freethinker; his views on God and religion changed over his lifetime. Source: Wikipedia