Jules Verne
Nato: February 08, 1828 – Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
Jules Verne was a French novelist best known for adventure tales that helped shape modern science fiction. His major works include Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. He remains among the world’s most translated authors.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France, on February 8, 1828, into a bourgeois family headed by a lawyer, Pierre Verne. Raised in a busy port city, he grew up amid ships, maps, trade routes, and stories of distant travel, influences that would later shape nearly all of his fiction. He was sent to Paris to study law, following family expectations, but the move became a decisive turning point: instead of building a legal career, he was drawn into literary circles and the theater. He wrote plays, journalism, and short fiction while supporting himself through stockbroking and other work. His early years in Paris taught him discipline as much as imagination, forcing him to combine ambitious literary aims with careful research and practical routine.
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"Jules Verne was a prolific French author whose writings laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction"
— Britannica
"Jules Verne: mythmaker of the machine age"
— The Independent
"French author Jules Verne (1828–1905) is generally considered the father of science fiction"
— Encyclopedia.com
"To call Jules Verne merely the Father of Science Fiction somehow doesn’t do him justice"
— Smithsonian Magazine
"Jules Verne: The writer who inspired space exploration"
— DW
"Jules Verne, Misunderstood Visionary"
— Scientific American
"The renowned 19th century French science fiction novelist Jules Verne (1828-1905) has remained a favorite of American readers for more than a century"
— Library of Congress