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Jules Verne

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Jules Verne
Photograph by Nadar c. 1878
Born	Jules Gabriel Verne 8 February 1828 Nantes, France
Died	24 March 1905 (aged 77) Amiens, France
Occupation	Novelist, poet, playwright
Nationality	French
Period	1850–1905
Notable works	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island Five Weeks in a Balloon Master of the World Off on a Comet
Spouse	Honorine Hebe du Fraysse de Viane (Morel) Verne
Children	Michel Verne and step-daughters Valentine and Suzanne Morel
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Jules Gabriel Verne (/vɜrn/;^[1] French: [ʒyl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) 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.^[2]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.^[3]

Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare;^[4] he probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s.^[5][a] He has been called "The Father of Science Fiction", a title also often given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.^[6][b]