John Wyndham

John Wyndham was the pen name of Lucas Beynon Harris, an English science fiction writer who also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. He is best known for The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), the latter filmed as Village of the Damned. His other science fiction includes The Chrysalids, a dystopian novel.