Herbert George WellsBorn: September 21, 1866Bromley, Kent, EnglandDied: August 13, 1946 (79 years old)London, EnglandOccupation:novelist, teacher, historian, journalistNationality:EnglishGenres:science fictionHerbert George Wells (September 21 August 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as HG Wells, was an English writer best known for his 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 fiction and non-fiction and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an avowed socialist. His later works became 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 called "the father of science fiction." •Herbert George Wells, the fourth and youngest child of Joseph Wells (former domestic gardener and at the time merchant and cricketer) and his wife Sarah Neal (a former servant), was born at Atlas House, 47 High Street, Bromley, in the County of Kent.[2] The family belonged to the poor lower middle class. An inheritance had enabled them to buy a china shop, but they soon realized that this would never be a successful business: the stock was old and worn and the location was poor. They managed to earn a meager income, but little of it came from the store. Joseph sold bats, cricket balls and other equipment at the matches he played, and received an unstable amount of money from these matches, because at that time there were no professional cricket players, and payment for qualified bowlers and batters could... . middle of paper ......anging World Encyclopaedia, which will be revised by outstanding 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, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of intellectuals and politicians to be liquidated immediately during the invasion of England as part of the abandoned Operation Sea Lion. The name “HG Wells” was at the top of the list for the “crime” of being a socialist. Wells, as president of 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..