Wyndham (Harris) as pictured in the May 1931 Wonder Stories. Retrieved from Wikipedia, public domain (accessed: April 10, 2020).
John Wyndham
[John B. Harris] , 1903 - 1969
Wyndham was a literary writer, born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. At the age of 8 when his parents divorced, he attended the Bedales School in Hampshire, a private boarding school. By 1925 he was already a renowned science-fiction writer, using the pseudonym John Beynon Harris. His most popular novels are The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953), and The Chrysalids (1955). His short story collections are Consider Her Ways (1961) and The Seeds of Time (1969). He wrote the short book Myths of Ífè (1921) during the years that he spent in Nigeria as an Assistant District officer among the Yoruba.
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Britannica.com (accessed: April 10, 2020).
Bio prepred by Eleanor A. Dasi, University of Yaoundé I, wandasi5@yahoo.com
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