Legacy: The Artists Behind The Legends

Herbert George Wells was an English novelist, teacher, historian, and journalist active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a prolific writer in various genres and considered to be one of the main pioneers of the science fiction genre alongside Jules Verne, writing more than 100 books during his six decade career. Additionally, Wells wrote short stories and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, as well as two books on recreational war games. Throughout his life, Wells was considered a prominent forward-thinking, and in moments prophetic, social critic, and he devoted much of his literary talent to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. Wells was a futurist and an outspoken socialist who empathized with pacifism, and he foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television, and quite possibly even the internet. Throughout his career, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, a ma