Aldous Leonard Huxley
English author, famed for his work "Brave new World", 1932. A pacifist and friend of D.H. Lawrence.
One of his brothers was a renowned physiologist (winner of the nobel price in 1963), the other was an
important biologist (general director of the UNESCO 1946-48). His grandfather was a zoologist and
in his time an important and early supporter of Darwins theory.
Timeline
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26.7.1894
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Born in Godalming
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1913-15
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Oxford
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1916
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First collection of Poems "The burning wheel"
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since 1921
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Satiric novels "Crome yellow", "Antic hay", Those barren leaves"
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1928
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First masterpiece "Point counter Point"
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1932
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Antiutopia: "Brave new world".
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1937
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Emmigration to California
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1948
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"Ape and essence", another (anti-)utopia
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1958
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"Brave new world revisited"
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22.11.1963
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Died in Hollywood, California
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Bibliography
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S. Bedford
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Aldous Huxley - A biography - 2 volumes
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London 1973-74
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D. Watt
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Aldous Huxley - The critical heritage
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London 1975
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By Aldeous Huxley
- The burning wheel, poems, 1916
- Crome yellow, novel, 1921
- Antic hay, novel, 1923
- Those barren leaves, novel, 1925
- Jesting Pilate, essay, 1926
- Point counter point, novel, 1928
- Music at night, and other essays, 1931
- Brave new world, utopia, 1932
- Eyeless in Gaza, novel, 1936
- After many a summer, novel, 1939
- The perennial philosophy, 1945
- Ape and essence, utopia, 1948
- Themes and variations, essay, 1950
- The doors of perception, 1954
- The genius and the goddess, novel, 1955
- Brave new world revisited, comment, 1958
- Island, utopia, 1962
Editions
- Selected poems, 1925
- Collected works, 1949-77 (36 volumes)
- Letters, 1969
- Collected short stories, 1973
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