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John Wyndham was born John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris in England in 1903. He grew up in the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. When he was 8 years old his parents divorced. He was then sent to a private boarding school, the Bedales School in Hampshire. After trying a few careers, including farming, law, art, and advertising, he began writing in 1925; in 1931 he began selling his short stories to American science-fiction pulp magazines under the pen name John Beynon or John Beynon Harris. His first novel was The Secret People (1935), a juvenile science fiction novel set in an underground world (“Wyndham, John"). He continued writing until 1939, when World War II came to Britain. He worked during the war as a government censor for the Ministry of Information.
After World War II, the author began writing under the pen name John Wyndham. These works fit into the genre of Scientific Romance, a genre shaped by HG Wells (“Wyndham, John"). HG Wells was a major influence on Wyndham, and their novels are often co
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John Wyndham
Born
in Knowle, Warwickshire, EnglandJuly 10, 1903
Died
March 11, 1969
Genre
Science Fiction
Influences
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John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister. After trying a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, he started writing short stories in 1925. After serving in the civil Service and the Army during the war, he went back to writing. Adopting the name John Wyndham, he started writing a form of science fiction that he called 'logical fantasy'. As well as The Day of the Triffids, he wrote The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos (filmed as Village of the Damned) and The Seeds of Time.
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was the son of a barrister. After trying a number of careers, including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, he started writing short stories in 1925. After serving in the civil Service and the Army during the war, he went back to writing. Adopting the name John Wyndham, he started writing a f
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A Very Brief Biography
JOHN WYNDHAM was officially born in Warwickshire on 10 July 1903, however it has been speculated that he may actually have been born out of wedlock a year earlier. He was grandly christened John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, and known by the shortened John Beynon Harris for most of his life. His parents George Beynon Harris and Gertrude Parkes divorced early in John’s life, which was a rare and shameful event in Edwardian Britain. Despite the scandal and resulting estrangement from his father, John enjoyed a happy, comfortable childhood. He was especially content at his last school, Bedales in Hampshire, a progressive fee-paying institute. John Harris' first 'published' story Vivisection (a tale that pays homage to both H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley) was written in 1919, and featured in the Bedales school magazine.
In the late 1920s, after unrewarding stints in farming, law, and advertising, John turned his hand to short Science Fiction stories. At the start of the next decade he won a $100 prize for
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