Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) · CatalogAldous HuxleyAldous Huxley (1894-1963) · CatalogEnglish novelist and essayist, author of Brave New World.Author
Aldous Huxley
1894-1963 · English novelist and essayist, author of Brave New World
Short biography: Aldous Huxley in Great Lives
About Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was an English novelist and essayist, grandson of the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley and brother of the biologist Julian Huxley. Near-blindness in his teens ended his hopes of a medical career, and he became known in the 1920s for satirical novels of ideas such as Crome Yellow and Point Counter Point. He moved to California in 1937, wrote on mysticism in The Perennial Philosophy and on drugs and perception in The Doors of Perception, and died in Los Angeles in November 1963.
Notable works
- Crome Yellow (1921)
- Point Counter Point (1928)
- Brave New World (1932)
- The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
- The Doors of Perception (1954)
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Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
1932 · Early 20th Century · Novel
Brave New World is set in the year 632 After Ford, in a World State that has achieved permanent stability. Human beings are no longer born but grown in bottles at hatcheries, divided before decanting into five castes from Alpha to Epsilon, and conditioned in infancy and by sleep-teaching to love their place in society.