Claire Tomalin.
claire tomalin: h.g.wELLS biography
the young h.g.wells: changing the world (2021)
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H.G.Wells (born 1866) was a hugely popular British author, who is regarded as the father of science fiction. His writing, covering autobiography, biography, satire, politics, history and politics, took the form of both books (of which he published more than fifty) and short stories. He is credited with having foreseen aircraft, tanks, nuclear weapons, satellites, and a system resembling the internet.
Wells’ father had worked as a domestic gardener, professional cricketer, and failed shopkeeper. His mother was formerly a domestic servant. Wells rose from this impoverished background to become a self-taught teacher, and obtained in 1890 a B.Sc. degree through the external programme of the University of London. He started earning by writing short humorous articles from the Pall Mall Gazette, and published his first novel, The Time Machine, in 1895. The success of this book launched him on his prolific writing career.
The Sunday Times wrote of Claire Tomalin’s biography of Wells: 'Richly informative... Tomalin admits that, although she set out to write about the young Wells, she has followed him into his forties because she found him 'too interesting to leave'. The same can be said of her book'. The Washingto Post wrote: ‘Tomalin's The Young H.G. Wells is hard to beat, being friendly, astute and a pleasure to read’.
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Claire Tomalin (born 1933) is a British author known for her several highly regarded biographies of writers. In addition to H.G.Wells, her subjects include Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft. The daughter of composer Muriel Herbert and French academic Emile Delvaney, she was educated at Hitchin Girls’ Grammar School and Newnaham College, Cambridge.
