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H. G. Wells

1866 - 1946

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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has been called the "father of science fiction". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. H. G. Wells is the 34th most popular writer (up from 167th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 111th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Writer.

H. G. Wells is most famous for his science fiction novels, which were published in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Among writers, H. G. Wells ranks 34 out of 7,302. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Gabriel García Márquez, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Agatha Christie. After him are Khalil Gibran, Anne Frank, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Matsuo Bashō, and Hermann Hesse.

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Among people born in 1866, H. G. Wells ranks 1. After him are Wassily Kandinsky, Romain Rolland, Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Charles Nicolle, Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, and Giovanni Agnelli. Among people deceased in 1946, H. G. Wells ranks 1. After him are Hermann Göring, John Maynard Keynes, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl, Amon Göth, Ion Antonescu, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Hans Frank.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, H. G. Wells ranks 40 out of 8,785. Before him are Anne Boleyn (1501), Queen Victoria (1819), Mary II of England (1662), Michael Faraday (1791), Edward V of England (1470), and Agatha Christie (1890). After him are Thomas Hobbes (1588), Edmond Halley (1656), Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Mary I of England (1516), Charles Dickens (1812), and Alan Turing (1912).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, H. G. Wells ranks 3. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), and Agatha Christie (1890). After him are Charles Dickens (1812), Thomas Hardy (1840), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), and Lewis Carroll (1832).

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