Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (/ˈɔːldəs ˈhʌksli/; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford with a first-class honors in English literature.

The author of nearly fifty books, he was best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian future; for non-fiction works, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug; and a wide-ranging output of essays.

Early in his career Huxley edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and published short stories and poetry. Mid career and later, he published travel writing, film stories, and scripts.

He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular universalism.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.

In 1962, a year before his death, he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.

By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.

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External links:

• Aldous Huxley @ Wikipedia