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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > key people in anthropology > H. G. Wells

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H. G. Wells  

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  • Herbert George Wells was a novelist, prophet, and gadfly, one of the20th-century's most multitalented thinkers. Born on September 21,1866, in modest circumstances in Bromley, Kent, Wells narrowly avoided a life of penury and obscurity in the drapery trade his mother planned for him. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Wells, H. G. (1866–1946)]

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