Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G. Wells, was a British author born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, England. He was the fourth and youngest child of Joseph Wells, a shopkeeper and professional cricketer, and Sarah Neal, a former domestic servant. Wells' parents were both working-class, and he had to leave school at the age of 14 to work as an apprentice to a draper.
Despite his lack of formal education, Wells was a voracious reader and self-taught intellectual. He won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School of Science in London, where he was introduced to the ideas of Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley. Wells became a science teacher, but he soon turned to writing, publishing his first novel, The Time Machine, in 1895.
Wells went on to become one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, known for his science fiction and social commentary.
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