H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was an English novelist, journalist, and social thinker often called the father of science fiction. Trained in biology under T. H. Huxley at the Normal School of Science in London, he drew on his scientific education to produce a remarkable sequence of early novels — The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898) — that remain cornerstones of the genre. A prolific writer of fiction, history, and political commentary, Wells also authored the bestselling The Outline of History (1920), a work that sold over two million copies and reshaped the teaching of history for a generation.