Jules Verne
Novelist, Author
1828 – 1905
Who was Jules Verne?
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1828
Nantes - Also known as
- Jules Gabriel Verne
- Verne
- J. Verne
- Julio Verne
- Júlio Verne
- The Father of Science Fiction
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Honorine de Viane Morel
(1857/01/10 - 1905/03/24)
- Honorine de Viane Morel
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- French people
- Breton people
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Lycée Georges Clemenceau
Philosophy
(1844 - 1846) - Rhetoric
- Lycée Georges Clemenceau
- Lived in
- Nantes
- Died
- Mar 24, 1905
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on July 23, 2013
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