Wells, H. G. (Herbert George, 1866-1946)
British author born in Bromley, Kent, who once taught at a Grammar School.
He went on to study biology and taught at the Universal Tutorial College while writing short stories on the side and dabbling in liberal-progressive politics and human rights issues.
The success of his short stories lead him to pursue a full-time writing career that produced over 100 books and articles.
Wells is regarded by many as the father of modern science fiction, a title also given to Jules Verne.
He is credited with authoring several classics, such as 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), Men Like Gods (1923) and The Shape of Things to Come (1933).
Wells enjoyed immense popularity during his lifetime, although this began to diminish somewhat during his final years.
Concerning religion, in one letter he wrote
I can’t – in my present state anyhow – bank on religion. God has no thighs and no life. When one calls to him in the silence of the night he doesn’t turn over and say, ‘What is the trouble, Dear?’
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Wells, however, did seem to have a mystical side:
At times, in the lonely silence of the night and in rare, lonely moments, I come upon a sort of communion of myself with something great that is not myself.
Among many other successful comedic and dramatic works, he additionally wrote an impressive two-volume Outline of History (1920).
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