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Wyndham was born in the village of Knowle just outside Birmingham, England. His parents, George Beynon Harris and Gertrude Parkes, separated when he was eight years old, after which he and his brother, the writer Vivian Beynon Harris, had no settled home.
He grew up in a series of English boarding schools, staying longest at Bedales ( 1918- 1921), which he left at the age of 18.
Despite this, his brother Vivian says: "He had a wonderful childhood and teenage time."
After leaving school he studied farming for a while, changed his mind about going to Oxford University and tried several ways of earning a living, but mostly relying on an allowance from his family. He eventually turned to writing for money in 1925. Throughout the 1930s he wrote many stories, mainly for American periodicals. He wrote some detective stories as well as science fiction.
Between 1940 and 1943, Wyndham was a civil servant with the British Government, working in censorship. He went into the army, where he was a Corporal Cipher Operator in the Royal Signal Corps, in time to participate in the Normandy landings.
In 1963 he married Grace Wilson. The couple lived out their lives near Petersfield, Hampshire, just outside the grounds of Bedales School .
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