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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 21 September 1866
- Died
- 13 August 1946
- Place of birth
- Bromley
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Wells
- Father
- Joseph Wells
- Mother
- Sarah Neal
- Spouse
- Isabel Mary Wells, Catherine Wells
- Genre
- science fiction, biography, essay
- Field of work
- science fiction, creative and professional writing, non-fiction literature, science fiction literature
- Occupation
- writer, historian, journalist, Idist, science fiction writer, novelist, sociologist, screenwriter
- Position held
- president
- Native language
- English
- academic degree
- Doctor of Biological Sciences
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library
- birth name
- Herbert George Wells
- cause of death
- liver tumor
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Library of the World's Best Literature, Anglické listy, The Encyclopedia Americana, New International Encyclopedia, ProDetLit, Faces of Moscow, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
- educated at
- Royal College of Science, University of London
- filmography
- H. G. Wells filmography
- has works in the collection
- Tate, J. Paul Getty Museum
- has written for
- The Atlantic, The War Illustrated, World War 1914-1918, The Saturday Evening Post
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- diabetes
- member of
- Fabian Society
- member of political party
- Labour Party
- name in native language
- Herbert George Wells
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- The Outline of History, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Shape of Things to Come, Marriage, The Soul of a Bishop
- political ideology
- socialism
- pseudonym
- H. G. Wells, Reginald Bliss, Septimus Browne, Sosthenes Smith
- related category
- Category:Films with screenplays by H. G. Wells
- significant event
- Nazi book burnings
- significant person
- Raphael Roche
- start of work period
- 1895
- student of
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- topic's main category
- Category:H. G. Wells
- unmarried partner
- Amber Reeves, Rebecca West, Margaret Sanger, Odette Keun, Moura Budberg, Elizabeth von Arnim
- writing language
- English
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