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,
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
Wyndham's first published sf story, "Worlds to Barter", was published in the May 1931 issue of Wonder Stories, under his pen name John Beynon Harris.
Wyndham/Harris as pictured in the May 1931 Wonder Stories
Wyndham's second story, "The Lost Machine", was cover-featured on the April 1932 issue of Amazing Stories, also under his Harris pen name
The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom in 1953, and first published in the United States
John Wyndham
…The Day of the Triffids (1951), also known as Revolt of the Triffids The Kraken Wakes (1953), published in the U.S. as Out of the Deeps, also known as The Things from the Deep The Chrysalids (1955), published in the U.S. as Re-Birth…
Cover of first edition (hardcover)