![]() The Island of Captain Sparrow (1928) was inspired by H.G. ![]() His 1928 novel Deluge, about a flood which devastates Britain, was a success and was later adapted into a Hollywood film of the same title. His first science fiction novel was The Amphibians (1924), set in a future where humanity has been succeeded by the titular beings. The book Science-Fiction: The Early Years describes Wright as "the major British writer of genre science fiction between Wells and the moderns". Wright began writing science fiction in the 1920s. Wright used Poetry to publish his translations of Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio. In 1917, Wright helped found the Empire Poetry League and edited the League's journal, Poetry. After Nellie's death in 1918, Wright married Truda (Anastasia Gertruda) Hancock in 1920. His first wife was Nellie (Julia Ellen) Ashbarry, whom he married in 1895. Wright also took regular exercise by hiking or cycling in the countryside. From a young age, Wright deliberately adopted a healthy lifestyle he did not smoke or eat meat, and rarely drank alcohol. ![]() Wright left school at eleven, and spent his adolescence studying literature when not working. Wright was born in Smethwick (then in the Kings Norton registration district), England. ![]()
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