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John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (⫽ ˈ w ɪ n d əm ⫽; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.
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John Wyndham (born July 10, 1903, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.—died March 11, 1969, London) was an English science-fiction writer who examined the human struggle for survival when catastrophic natural phenomena suddenly invade a comfortable English setting.
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John Wyndham. Writer: Village of the Damned. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was born in 1903. After trying many jobs including farming and law, he started writing short stories for publication in 1925.
- July 10, 1903
- March 11, 1969
John Wyndham was a science fiction writer from England. In 1931, Wyndham was selling short science fiction stories to magazines and his story 'The Lost Machine' was published in the April 1932.
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( / ˈwɪndəm /; 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.
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 .
Under a short form of his legal name, John Beynon Harris, Wyndham was one of the founding directors in 1948 of John Carnell's Nova Publications, established to publish New Worlds on a professional basis; he was chairman of directors until 1954 and remained on the board until Nova Publications was finally dissolved in June 1964. [JC]
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