Education
John Wyndham studied at a number of English preparatory and boarding schools, including Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon during the First World War.
John Wyndham studied at a number of English preparatory and boarding schools, including Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon during the First World War.
John Wyndham eventually turned to writing for money in 1925, and by 1931 was selling short stories and serial fiction to American science fiction pulp magazines, most under the pen names of 'John Beynon' or 'John Beynon Harris', although he also wrote some detective stories.During the Second World War Wyndham first served as a censor in the Ministry of Information, then joined the army, serving as a Corporal cipher operator in the Royal Corps of Signals. He participated in the Normandy landings, although was not involved in the first days of the landings.He went on to write and publish six more novels under the name John Wyndham, all of which appeared in his lifetime.