H. G. Wells began writing in his childhood and publishing just before the close of the nineteenth century. He was a journalist, novelist, historian and autobiographer, whose favourite fictional genres are science fiction on one hand and on the other realistic explorations of social and political conditions, including women's issues.
Milestones
21 September 1866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, British writer, scientific visionary, and later Don Juan, was born in
Bromley, just south of
London, the youngest of four children.
13 August 1946 HGW, novelist, journalist, encyclopedist, scientific visionary, died in
London.
