Herbert George Wells Born: 21 September 1866 Bromley, Kent, England Died: 13 August 1946 (age 79) London, England Profession: Novelist, teacher, historian, journalist Nationality: English Genres: Science fiction Herbert George Wells (September HG Wells, 21 August 1866 – 13 August 1946), was an English writer best known for science fiction novels such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary fiction, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells, along with Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne, is sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction."•Herbert George Wells, fourth and last son of Joseph Wells (a former home gardener and then shopkeeper and cricketer) and his wife Sarah Neal (a former servant), were born at Atlas House, 47 High Street, Bromley, County Kent.[2] The family belonged to the impoverished lower middle class. An inheritance had enabled them to purchase a china shop, although they quickly realized that it would never be a prosperous business: the warehouse was old and worn, and the location was poor. They managed to earn a meager income, but little came from the shop. Joseph sold cricket bats, balls and other equipment at the matches he played, and received an unstable sum of money from the matches, as there were no professional cricketers at that time, and payment for experienced bowlers and batsmen ca... .middle of paper......anging World Encyclopaedia, to be revised by exceptional authorities and made accessible to every human being. In 1938 he published a collection of essays on the future organization of knowledge and education, World Brain, including the essay "The Idea of ​​a Permanent World Encyclopedia." Towards the end of World War II, the Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of intellectuals and politicians destined for immediate liquidation following the invasion of England in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion. The name "HG Wells" appeared high on the list for the "crime" of being a socialist. Wells, as president of the international PEN (poets, essayists, novelists), had already angered the Nazis by overseeing the expulsion of the German PEN club from the international body in 1934 following the German PEN's refusal to admit non-Aryan writers among its members..