Aldous Huxley

Aldous (Leonard) Huxley was born at Godalming, Surrey, on July 26, 1894 as a son of one of the most intellectual families of England. He attended Eton and, after an eye affliction had nearly blinded him, he was educated at Oxford. There he took a degree in English literature. In 1919 when he joined the editorial staff of "The Athenaeum" under the sponsorship of J. Middleton Murry, he was introduced into the literary world of London. After that he lived in Italy or Southern France and from 1937 to his death in 1963 he lived in California, USA.
After he had published poetry and some prose, he published his first novel named "Crome Yellow" in 1921. Other well-known novels followed: "Antic Hay" (1923) and "Point Counter Point" (1928). The most popular novel is "Brave New World" written in 1932, in which he analysed the future in an imaginative way. His persistent concern with the dangers of moral anarchy in a technological and scientific world was marked in all his novels such like writings as "Proper Studies" (1927), "Science, Liberty and Peace" (1946), "The Doors of Perception" (1954) and "Brave New World" (1958). Not to forget: "Ape and Essence" (1948),"The Genius and the Goddess" (1955) and "Island" (1962).