Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963), an English writer, had one of the most varied literary careers of his time. He published three collections of poems and a book of stories before starting the series of witty, sophisticated novels that made him famous. The series includes Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925), and Point Counter Point (1928). The books satirize English society. Point Counter Point‘s characters are based on Huxley and his friends.
Huxley believed that science was destroying human and political values. He expressed this concern in the satirical novel Brave New World (1932). This famous book describes a totalitarian society that disregards individual dignity and worships science and machines.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Godalming, in the county of Surrey. Huxley moved to the United States during the late 1930’s, and he spent most of the rest of his life there. He died on Nov. 22, 1963. Huxley was the grandson of the famous zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley and the brother of the noted biologist Sir Julian Huxley.
