![]() On the plausibility of his writing, The Guardian states his "innocuously English backdrops are central to the power of his novels, implying that apocalypse could occur at any time - or, indeed, be happening in the next village at this moment", while The Times's reviewer of The Day of the Triffids described it as possessing "all the reality of a vividly realised nightmare." Wyndham married Grace Wilson in 1963 he had known her for more than 30 years. He saw action during World War II and went back to writing afterwards, publishing several very successful novels, and influencing a number of other writers who followed him. He tried several careers before publishing a novel and several short stories. ![]() ![]() Wyndham was born in Warwickshire and spent most of his childhood in private education in Devon and Hampshire. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title. ![]() Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. ![]() 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. Wyndham's 1951 novelette "Tyrant and Slave-Girl on Planet Venus" was the cover story for the first and only issue of Ten Story Fantasy, under his pen name John Beynon. ![]()
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