Aldous Huxley Biography

He was best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London; for non-fiction books, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug; and a wide-ranging output of essays. Early in his career Huxley edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and published short stories and poetry. Mid career and later, he published travel writing, film stories, and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the U.S., living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. In 1962, a year before his death, he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular universalism. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years.

Selected works:

Novels:

• 1921 Crome Yellow
• 1923 Antic Hay
• 1925 Those Barren Leaves
• 1928 Point Counter Point
• 1932 Brave New World
• 1936 Eyeless in Gaza
• 1939 After Many a Summer
• 1944 Time Must Have a Stop
• 1948 Ape and Essence
• 1955 The Genius and the Goddess
• 1962 Island