John Wyndham

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About John Wyndham

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris 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. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. 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. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 10.

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English author (died 1969). This page is tagged with Arts & Letters, Historical, Global.

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