Graham Wallas

Graham Wallas (1858 to 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist and educationalist, a leader of the Fabian Society and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, he studied at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and taught at Highgate School until he resigned in 1885 rather than take communion. He joined the Fabian Society in 1886, resigned from it in 1904 in protest at its support for Joseph Chamberlain's tariff policy, was elected to the London School Board in 1894 and lectured at the London School of Economics from 1895. His main works were Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), which argued that social psychology could explain the strains the Industrial Revolution placed on modern society, and Our Social Heritage (1921). In The Art of Thought (1926) he proposed one of the first complete models of the creative process, with the stages of preparation, incubation, illumination and verification.