Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, into a well-known family of scientists and writers; his grandfather was the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley. At Eton he developed an eye disease that left him nearly blind for a time, ending his hopes of becoming a doctor. He studied English literature at Balliol College, Oxford, and began his career writing satirical novels about English society, such as Crome Yellow and Antic Hay. Brave New World (1932) imagines a future world state that keeps its people content through engineered births, conditioning and a drug called soma; it became one of the best-known novels of the century. In 1937 Huxley moved to the United States and settled in California, where he wrote screenplays and essays and grew interested in mysticism and eastern religion. His later books include The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception and the novel Island. He died in Los Angeles in 1963, on the same day as C. S. Lewis.

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Faith: In later life he showed a growing interest in Hindu philosophy and mysticism. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica