HG Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, England. British author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. He is sometimes called The Father of Science Fiction.
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💰HG Wells Net worth: $70 Million
About
British author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. He is sometimes called The Father of Science Fiction.
Before Fame
He worked several apprenticeships, including one at the Southsea Drapery Emporium, to help pay for family costs. He published his first major work, The Time Machine, in 1895, when he was twenty-nine years old.
Trivia
Several of his works, including The Invisible Man, have been repeatedly adapted into films.
Family Life
He grew up in Kent, England, and he died of diabetes in London at the age of seventy-nine. He separated from his wife (who was also his cousin), Isabel Mary Wells, in order to marry his student, Amy Catherine Robbins.
Associated With
His writing style has been compared to that of Charles Dickens, even though the two men specialized in very different literary genres.
