Jules Verne

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Title: Jules Verne Category: Top 10+ Writers Origin: France Listing added: Apr 14, 2009 Comments: 0 PageRank: 5/10

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Also called the "Father of the Science-Fiction" he wrote about flying, diving before there were any submarines or space ships.
Jules Verne died on March 24, 1905 and was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery in Amiens. There are recently (2008) initiated efforts to have him reburied in the Panthéon, alongside France's other literary giants.

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