H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells was born September 21, 1866 in Bromley, England as Herbert George Wells. His parents were Sarah and Joseph Wells. Joseph, his father owned a hardware store. Herbert also had two brothers and one sister: Frank, Fred, and Fanny Wells.
His parents worried about Herbert’s poor health often. They thought he would die young, like his older sister. At seven years old, Herbert had an accident. They had to watch him more carefully. During this time, he read books. Sadly, his father’s shop failed. His family was in a financial struggle. The boys were apprenticed to a draper [a person who sells clothes and dried goods], and his mother became a housekeeper.
Wells was at his mother’s workplace he discovered the owner’s library. He read Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, and many more. Early in his teen years he became a draper’s assistant. He hated his job, so he eventually quit, but his mother wasn’t happy. Wells wanted to become a teacher, so he found a way to continue his own way to study.
He won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science. While he was there he learned about physics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology, with other subjects. Wells also devoted most of his time trying to become a writer. During college, he published a short story about time travel called “The Chronic Argonauts,” which helped his future literary success.
Career
In 1895, it was like Wells became an overnight literary sensation when he published the novel The Time Machine. Wells continued to write what was called scientific romances. He published science fiction books such as The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. In an addition to fiction, Wells wrote many essays, articles, and non-fiction books...

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...about 50 year, Wells devoted most of his life to writing and his output during this time. Wells stayed productive until the very end of his life, but his attitude started to change in a negative way in his last days. The last thing he wrote was in 1945’s “Mind at the End of Its Tether”. It was an essay which was completed when he was going to pass soon. He died in London August 13, 1946.
Wells was remembered as an author, historian, and champion of certain social and political ideals. As the years went by they called him, “the Father of Futurism”. But today he is mostly called or known as “the Father of Science Fiction.” Several of His films have been back on the big screen in recent times. They remade War of the Worlds in 2005 with Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning staring in it.
In 1961 He was nominated and won the Hugo award for The War of the Worlds.