H. G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on
David Lodge (author) is a tragic infirmity". Lodge has said of his own work, "each of my novels corresponds to a particular phase or aspect of my own life [but] this does not mean they are autobiographical in any simple, straightforward sense". Two of Lodge's recent novels are based on the lives of authors: "Author, Author" (2004), about Henry James and "A Man of Parts" (2011), about H. G. Wells. "Author, Author" suffered from comparisons to Colm Tóibín's novel about Henry James, "The Master", which was published six months earlier and went on to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize; most reviews of