Wells drew extensively on his experiences as a student for his novel Love and Mr. Ill-fed, poor and increasingly discontented by both the quality of the teaching he received and the social organization of the world, Wells became more and more interested in politics and in imaginative literature, especially Plato, Blake and Carlyle.
Wells failed his final exams and found work as a teacher in Wales. After being fouled in a rugby game, he suffered severe kidney damage, and for much of the s Wells feared he would die prematurely. Returning to London and completing his degree, he worked as a correspondence tutor and in wrote his first books Honours Physiography and A Textbook of Biology. His writing branched out into literary journalism and popular scientific writing, and in alone Wells published four further books: Select Conversations with an Uncle, The Wonderful Visit, The Stolen Bacillus and other Incidents and his masterpiece The Time Machine.
None has ever been out of print since; Wells was swiftly hailed as a man of genius by his contemporaries. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of ideas. On Sept. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent. His origins were lower middle class, his father being a semiprofessional cricket player and his mother an intermittent housekeeper.
At the age of 7 Wells entered Morley's School in Bromley, leaving at the age of 14, when he became apprenticed to a draper. He rebelled against this fate in After a year of teaching at a private school, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science at South Kensington in , where he studied under the biologist T.
Wells left Kensington without a degree in , returning to teaching in private schools for three years. He received a degree in science from the University of London in Wells began teaching at a correspondence college in London in after his marriage to his cousin Isabel. The marriage was both difficult and brief. After three years of writing on educational topics, he published his first novel, The Time Machine.
Divorcing his first wife, Wells remarried in and abandoned teaching. Wells's involvement with socialism and radicalism had begun in and continued for the remainder of his life. Love and Mr. Lewisham , Wells's first nonscience fiction novel, concerned the relationship of men and women and introduced sex as an integral part of that relationship.
Known as Bertie to his family, Wells had three older siblings. The family lived in poverty for many years as the store provided a limited income due to poor location and inferior merchandise. At the age of 7, after Wells suffered an accident that left him bedridden, he became a voracious reader of everything from Charles Dickens to Washington Irving. When the family store finally went under, his mother went to work as a housekeeper at a large estate.
It was there Wells was able to expand his literary horizons with authors such as Voltaire. At the age of 18, Wells received a scholarship to the Normal School of Science, where he studied biology. He later attended London University. After graduating in , Wells became a science teacher. His first book, the "Textbook of Biology," was published in Wells married his cousin, Isabel Mary Wells, in , but left her in for a former student, Amy Catherine Robbins.
The couple married in Wells' first fiction novel, " The Time Machine ," was published the same year. The book brought Wells instant fame, inspiring him to embark on a serious career as a writer. Wells long- and short-form fiction falls into many genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, dystopian fiction, satire , and tragedy.
Wells penned plenty of non-fiction, including biographies, autobiographies , social commentaries, and textbooks as well as social commentary, history, biography, autobiography, and recreational war games. All four novels have been adapted for film, however, one of the most famous renditions of a Wells work was by Orson Welles, whose radio adaptation of " The War of the Worlds " was broadcast on October 30, The reports that many listeners, not realizing what they were hearing was a radio play rather than a news broadcast and were so terrorized at the prospect of an alien invasion that they fled their homes in fear has since been debunked.
However, the panic story was accepted for years and became one of the most enduring urban legends ever perpetrated in the name of a publicity campaign. Wells died on August 13, , 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. Wells liked to say that he wrote "scientific romances. Wells' influence on this genre is so significant that he, along with French author Jules Verne , share the title of "the father of science fiction. Wells was among the first to write about such things as time machines and alien invasions.
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