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Aldous Huxley, the son of Leonard Huxley, the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, was born in Godalming, Surrey, in 1894. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. While at university Huxley contributed articles to The Athenaeum.

In the 1920s he had several books published including Limbo (1920), Chrome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Those Barren Leaves (1925). Huxley moved to Italy where he met and became friends with D. H. Lawrence. Mark Rampion, who appears in Point Counter Point (1928), is based on Lawrence. After the death of his friend, Huxley arranged for the publication of The Letters of D. H. Lawrence (1932).

Huxley's most famous novel, Brave New World, appeared in 1932. Set in 7th century AF (after Henry Ford), Huxley describes a society where human beings are graded from highest intellectuals to lowest manual workers and brought up to accept their social destiny.

Other novels by Huxley include Eyeless in Gaza (1936), After Many a Summer (1939), Ape and Essence (1948), The Devils of Loudun (1952), The Doors of Perception (1954) and Heaven and Hell (1956). Aldous Huxley died in 1963.

 

 

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