Aldous Huxley

Biography

British novelist and essayist, born in Surrey in 1894 into an intellectual family (his grandfather was the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley). Eye trouble ended his plans for medicine and he turned to literature, making his name in the 1920s with satirical novels. Brave New World (1932) became a classic of dystopian fiction, and in Brave New World Revisited (1958) he reassessed its prophecy. He later turned to mysticism and the study of consciousness, writing The Doors of Perception (1954), among others. He moved to California in the 1940s and died in 1963.