Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). Verne's novels are generally set in the latter half of the 19th century, reflecting contemporary scientific knowledge and technological advances.

In addition to his novels, Verne wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic, and literary studies. His works have been adapted into numerous films, television shows, comic books, theater productions, operas, music, and video games. Verne is considered an important author in France and much of Europe, influencing the literary avant-garde and surrealism. However, in the English-speaking world, he was often labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books due to abridged and altered translations of his work. His literary reputation has seen significant improvement since the 1980s.

Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author worldwide since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare. Often referred to as the "father of science fiction," a title he shares with H.G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback, Verne was the most translated French author globally in the 2010s. The year 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" in France, marking the centenary of his death.