Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), English novelist, essayist, critic, and poet,
grandson of Thomas
Huxley and brother of Julian
Huxley. Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, and educated
at Eton College and the University of Oxford. He worked on various periodicals
and published four books of verse before the appearance of his first novel,
Crome Yellow (1921). The novels Antic Hay (1923) and Point Counter Point
(1928), both of which illustrate the nihilistic temper of the 1920s, and Brave
New World (1932), an ironic vision of a future utopia, established Huxley's
fame. During the 1920s he lived largely in Italy and France. He immigrated
to the United States in 1937. Among his more than 45 books are the volumes
of essays Jesting Pilate (1926), Ends and Means (1937), Tomorrow and Tomorrow
and Tomorrow (1956), Brave New World Revisited (1958), and Literature and
Science (1963). Other novels include Eyeless in Gaza (1936), After Many a
Summer Dies the Swan (1939), Ape and Essence (1948), and Island (1962). Huxley
also wrote on science, philosophy, and social criticism. Important nonfiction
works include The Art of Seeing (1932), The Perennial Philosophy (1946),
and The Devils of Loudon (1952). The Doors of Perception (1954) and its sequel
Heaven and Hell (1956) deal with Huxley's experiences with hallucinogenic
drugs.
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