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He had two sons with Jane: George Philip (known as "Gip"; 1901–1985) and Frank Richard (1903–1982) [6] : 295 (grandfather of film director Simon Wells ). Jane died on 6 October 1927, in Dunmow, at the age of 55, which left Wells devastated.
May 28, 2024 · Herbert George Wells. Born: September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England. Died: August 13, 1946, London (aged 79) Notable Works: “A Modern Utopia”. “Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought”. “Experiment in Autobiography”.
Nov 9, 2019 · H.G. Wells died on August 13, 1946, at the age of 79 of unspecified causes (his death has been attributed to a heart attack or a liver tumor). Wells' ashes were scattered at sea in Southern England near a series of three chalk formations known as Old Harry Rocks .
***TOO LONG***H.G. Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, social commentaries, satire, biography and an autobiography. He is remembered for his futuristic novels and is known as the "father of science fiction".
H. G. Wells, (born Sept. 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, Eng.—died Aug. 13, 1946, London), English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian. While studying science under T.H. Huxley in London, Wells formulated a romantic conception of the subject that would inspire the inventive and influential science-fiction and fantasy novels for which he ...
Jul 3, 2015 · HG Wells died in 1946. He had been working on a film sequel to The Shape of Things To Come that was to include his concerns about the now-realised atomic bomb he'd first imagined. But it was...
May 29, 2018 · In 1941—five years before Wells's death—Sinclair Lewis suggested that “there is no greater novelist living than Mr. H. G. Wells.” More recent biographies and critical studies by Smith, Patrick Parrinder, John R. Reed, and John Batchelor reveal that a sympathetic interest in Wells and his work continues to grow.
LONDON, Aug. 13--H.G. Wells, famous British novelist, historian and sociologist, who was considered one of the outstanding contemporary literary figures, died this afternoon at his home in...
May 28, 2024 · H.G. Wells - Sci-Fi Pioneer, Novelist, Social Critic: In spite of an awareness of possible world catastrophe that underlay much of his earlier work and flared up again in old age, Wells in his lifetime was regarded as the chief literary spokesman of the liberal optimism that preceded World War I.
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English author of science fiction novels such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau.
