<p>Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.<br />
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children&#39;s books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. He has sometimes been called the 'Father of Science Fiction'.</p>