Biography
Jules Verne was born in Nantes in 1828 and studied law in Paris, but soon turned to literature and the theatre. In 1850 his comedy “Les Pailles rompues” was staged at the Théâtre Historique; he later served as secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique and wrote comic operas with the composer Aristide Hignard. From 1862 he worked with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, who issued his novels as the series “Voyages extraordinaires”, among them “Five Weeks in a Balloon” (1863), “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1864), “From the Earth to the Moon” (1865), “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas” (1869) and “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1873). Together with Adolphe d’Ennery he adapted several of his novels for the stage, such as “Le Tour du monde en 80 jours” in 1874 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin and “Michel Strogoff”; these stage versions made him wealthy. Around 1870 he settled in Amiens, where he sat on the town council from 1888 and died in 1905. Verne is one of the most translated authors in the world, and his stories are still adapted for theatre, opera and film today.
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