Editing H. G. Wells (section)

===Final years===
[[File:Herbert George Wells in 1943.jpg|right|thumb|upright|H.{{nbsp}}G. Wells in 1943]]
Wells's greatest literary output occurred before the First World War, which was lamented by younger authors whom he had influenced. In this connection, [[George Orwell]] described Wells as "too sane to understand the modern world", and "since 1920 he has squandered his talents in slaying [[Paper tiger|paper dragons]]."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Orwell |first=George |title=Wells, Hitler and the World State |journal=Horizon |date=August 1941 |url=http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118081350/http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws |archive-date=2016-01-18}}</ref> [[G. K. Chesterton]] quipped: "Mr Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for a pot of message".<ref>{{cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/hgwellsunderrevi00inte |title=H.{{nbsp}}G. Wells under revision : proceedings of the International H.{{nbsp}}G. Wells Symposium, London, July 1986 |last1=Parrinder |first1=Patrick |last2=Rolfe |first2=Christopher |date=1990 |location=Selinsgrove, Pa. / London|publisher= Susquehanna University Press / Associated University Presses |isbn=978-0-945636-05-2}}</ref>

Wells had [[diabetes mellitus|diabetes]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Who_we_are/History/HG-Wells/ |title=H.{{nbsp}}G. Wells—Diabetes UK |date=2008-04-14 |access-date=2012-06-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106003137/http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Who_we_are/History/HG-Wells/ |archive-date=2011-01-06}}</ref> and was a co-founder in 1934 of The Diabetic Association (now [[Diabetes UK]], the leading charity for people with diabetes in the UK).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Who_we_are/History/ |title=Diabetes UK: Our History |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108072908/https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/who_we_are/history |archive-date=2017-11-08 |access-date=2015-12-10}}</ref>

On 28 October 1940, on the radio station [[KTSA]] in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], Wells took part in a radio interview with [[Orson Welles]], who two years previously had performed a famous [[The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)|radio adaptation of ''The War of the Worlds'']]. During the interview, by Charles C Shaw, a KTSA radio host, Wells admitted his surprise at the sensation that resulted from the broadcast but acknowledged his debt to Welles for increasing sales of one of his "more obscure" titles.<ref>{{cite book |last=Flynn |first=John L. |title=War of the Worlds: from Wells to Spielberg by |publisher=Galactic |isbn=978-0-9769400-0-5 |location=Owens Mills, MD |page=45 |chapter=The legacy of Orson Welles and the Radio Broadcast |date=June 2005}}</ref>