Ki randizott Elizabeth von Arnim-szel?

Elizabeth von Arnim (31 August 1866 – 9 February 1941), born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel Prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Though known in early life as May, her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to friends and finally to family. Arnim published anonymously, or simply as "Elizabeth", or on one occassion as "Alice Cholmondeley". Modern bibliographers attribute her work to Elizabeth von Arnim, her preferred name when her literary career began.

Herbert George Wells, gyakran csak H. G. Wells (Anglia, Bromley, 1866. szeptember 21. – London, 1946. augusztus 13.) angol író, aki főleg a science fiction műfajban írt műveiről ismert (például Világok harca, A láthatatlan ember, Dr. Moreau szigete). A világirodalom egyik legtermékenyebb írója, aki szinte minden létező műfajban alkotott.

Nyíltan védelmezte a (nyugati típusú) szocialista nézeteket, sok műve tartalmaz politikai, vagy szociális jellegű utalásokat. Késői művei egyre politikusabbak és didaktikusabbak lettek, ma már jobbára csak korai science fiction regényeit olvassák széles körben.

Hugo Gernsbackkel és Jules Verne-nel együtt „a science fiction atyjának” tartják.