Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.
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| Born | Aldous Leonard Huxley 26 July 1894 Godalming, Surrey, England |
| Died | 22 November 1963 (aged 69) Los Angeles County, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Compton, Surrey, England |
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| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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| Children | Matthew Huxley |
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He wrote a number of novels, on various themes. Most of his books are about modern society, the effects of modern science and, later, on mysticism and psychedelic drugs like LSD.
Huxley is probably best known for his book Brave New World. In the book, which was written in 1932, he writes about a world in the far future, where the whole social hierarchy is based on genetic traits, and not on the personal effort of individual people to improve themselves.
Selected works
Novels
- Crome Yellow (1921)
- Antic Hay (1923)
- Those Barren Leaves (1925)
- Point Counter Point (1928)
- Brave New World (1932)
- Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- After Many a Summer (1939)
- Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
- Ape and Essence (1948)
- The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
- Island (1962)
Essay collections
- On the Margin (1923)
- Along the Road (1925)
- Essays New and Old (1926)
- Proper Studies (1927)
- Do What You Will (1929)
- Vulgarity in Literature (1930)
- Music at Night (1931)
- Texts and Pretexts (1932)
- The Olive Tree and other essays (1936)
- Ends and Means (1937)
- Words and their Meanings (1940)
- The Art of Seeing (1942)
- The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
- Science, Liberty and Peace (1946)
- Themes and Variations (1950)
- The Doors of Perception (1954)
- Heaven and Hell (1956)
- Adonis and the Alphabet (U.S. title: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow) (1956)
- Collected Essays (1958)
- Brave New World Revisited (1958)
- Literature and Science (1963)
- Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience 1931–63 (1977)
- The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (1977)
Screenplays
- Brave New World
- Ape and Essence
- Pride and Prejudice (Collaboration. 1940)
- Madame Curie (Collaboration. 1943)
- Jane Eyre (Collaboration with John Houseman. 1944)
- A Woman's Vengeance 1947
- Eyeless in Gaza (BBC Mini-series 1971)
Audio Recordings on CD
Other
- Pacifism and Philosophy (1936)
- An Encyclopedia of Pacifism (editor, 1937)
- Grey Eminence (1941)
- The Devils of Loudun (1953)
- The Politics of Ecology (1962)
- Selected Letters (2007)
Aldous Huxley Media
English Heritage blue plaque at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, commemorating Aldous, his brother Julian, and his father Leonard
Painting of Huxley (at age 32) by John Collier (1927)
Bloomsbury Group members (July 1915). Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell (age 42); Maria Nys (age 15), who would become Mrs Huxley; Lytton Strachey (age 35); Duncan Grant (age 30); and Vanessa Bell (age 36)
Huxley (age 52) in 1947, his right eye affected by keratitis, which he had contracted in 1911
References
- ↑ "listing in". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Note on lecturing in Santa Barbara". Pooler-georgia-homepage.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
- ↑ "listing in". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
Other websites
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Wikisource has original writing related to this article: |
- Video interviews of Huxley from the 1950s, exploring Brave New World, Island, and psychedelics
- Works by Aldous Huxley at Project Gutenberg
- Aldous Huxley on the Internet Movie Database
- LitWeb.net: Aldous Huxley Biography