Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, a grandson of the biologist Thomas Huxley, and at sixteen lost almost all his sight to a disease of the cornea, which closed the medical career he had intended; he learned Braille. He began with satirical novels about cultivated circles, settled in California from 1937, where he wrote screenplays for Hollywood, published on comparative mysticism, then in 1954 an account of an experience under mescaline. He died in 1963, on the day of Kennedy's assassination, which meant his death passed almost unnoticed.

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• NovelBrave New WorldAldous Huxley · 1932Literature