Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English author and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. well known for his stories including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and released short novels, poetry, travel composing, and movie novels and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
Aldous Huxley was a humanist and pacifist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics.
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By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank, and highly regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of visual communication and sight-related theories as well.
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Aldous Huxley started life in Godalming, Surrey, Uk, in 1894. He was the third son of the author and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field Colledge. Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist. His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists. Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan , who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.
Aldous Huxley
