H. G. Wells he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in "Tono-Bungay" (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934. Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 162 High Street in Bromley, Kent, on 21 September 1866. Called "Bertie" in the family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells (a former domestic gardener, and at the time a shopkeeper and professional cricketer) and his wife, Sarah Neal (a former domestic
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