Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an English novelist and critic best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. He wrote extensively across multiple genres including novels, essays, poems, plays, and travel books. Despite personal hardships like his mother's death and temporary blindness, Huxley earned a degree from Oxford University and became a influential literary figure in London in the 1920s. Much of his work was social commentary and criticism of how society and external influences could degrade human individuality and spirit if left uncontrolled.

1. By: Peter DerksAldous Huxley (1894-1963)

2. 1894-1963Wrote the novelBrave New WorldBesides Novels, he also wrote: travel books, poems, plays as well essays ranging through multiple topics.

3. July 26, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, English novelist and critic Aldous Leonard Huxley was born.

4. Despite having his mother die (1908) and suffering temporary blindness for 18 months, Huxley was able to earn his B.A. in English from Balliol College, Oxford.

5. Publishing a dozen books through the 1920s, he quickly became a influential literacy figure. Biography

6. Brave New World (1932), which was a fictional book about futuristic society.

7. Brave New World Revisited (1958) was written to show Huxley’s opinion on the masterwork (Brave New World) and reflect on the fact that his assumptions of the future were coming due to Hitler’s Reich.

8. Island (1962) is a return to the a utopia first visited in the novel Brave New World, but not the same futuristic land, instead it is a fabled island called Pala that explores what it would be like from an outsiders point of view coming into such a content land.Biography (Cont'd)

9. Huxley was born into a prestigious family. his grandfather Thomas Henry Huxley, whom was an advocate of Charles Darwin’s book The Origin of Species and much of prestige came from strong debates against religious forms of evolution.Huxley was first seen as a literary figure in London when he wrote Crome Yellow (1921) In 1937 he moved to California, where he took LSD and mescaline. In 1954 Huxley wrote The Doors of Perception, which made him a guru to the Californian Hippies of the time. Reputation