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John Wyndham

John Wyndham was born John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris in England in 1903. He grew up in the Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. When he was 8 years old his parents divorced. He was then sent to a private boarding school, the Bedales School in Hampshire. After trying a few careers, including farming, law, art, and advertising, he began writing in 1925; in 1931 he began selling his short stories to American science-fiction pulp magazines under the pen name John Beynon or John Beynon Harris....

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John Wyndham Essays

10th Grade

The Chrysalids

Mankind’s intense fear of evil is capable of provoking humans to commit grotesque acts of malice in order to get rid of “evil” in their daily life. John Wyndham's The Chrysalids effectively exposes the hypocrisy and the ludicrousness of a...