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Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.
Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism.
Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 1894.
Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist (" Darwin's Bulldog ").
Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.
Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.
Aldous Huxley had transformative lessons with Alexander, and continued doing so with other teachers after moving to the USA.
Aldous Huxley wrote that Poe's writing " falls into vulgarity " by being " too poetical "— the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.
Blair was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley.
Nineteen Eighty-Four is often compared to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ; both are powerful dystopian novels warning of a future world where the state machine exerts complete control over social life.
He often entertained literary figures like Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Aldous Huxley, Ferenc Molnár, and close friend Somerset Maugham, as well.
* 1894 Aldous Huxley, English author ( d. 1963 )
Zajdel paid a tribute to George Orwell's newspeak and to Aldous Huxley by naming one of the main characters Nikor Orley Huxwell.
Aldous Huxley dies several hours after the assassination.
* Aldous Huxley
In the early 1960s the use of LSD and other hallucinogens was advocated by proponents of the new " consciousness expansion ", such as Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley and Arthur Koestler, their writings profoundly influenced the thinking of the new generation of youth.
* Brave New World ( 1932 ) by Aldous Huxley
Bradbury claimed a wide variety of influences, and described discussions he might have with his favorite poets and writers Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, and Thomas Wolfe.
The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline.
The psychiatrist had misgivings about giving the drug to Huxley, and wrote that " I did not relish the possibility, however remote, of being the man who drove Aldous Huxley mad ," but instead found him an ideal subject.
The book contained " 99 percent Aldous Huxley and only one half gram mescaline " according to Ronald Fisher.
* Island ( 1962 ) by Aldous Huxley follows the story of Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist, who shipwrecks on the fictional island of Pala and experiences their unique culture and traditions which create a utopian society.
She was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents ' friendship with writer Aldous Huxley's wife, Laura Huxley.

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** Aldous Huxley, British writer ( Brave New World ) ( b. 1894 )
Their four children included the biologist Julian Huxley ( 1887 1975 ) and the writer Aldous Huxley ( 1894 1963 ).
* Aldous Huxley, English author ( 1894 1963 ), married Maria Nys from Sint-Truiden and briefly resided on the town's central square
Numerous notable people were born in the town including: James Oglethorpe ( born 1696 ), founder of the colony of Georgia ; Julius Caesar ( born 1830 ), cricketer ; Aldous Huxley ( born 1894 ), writer ; Nick Clarke ( born 1948 ), radio journalist and presenter ; and Mick Mills ( born 1949 ), footballer.
** Aldous Huxley ( 1894 1963 ), British writer, son of Leonard
* Aldous Huxley ( 1894 1963 ), author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception

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* January 30 Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
* July 26 Aldous Huxley, English author ( d. 1963 )
* May 5 Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book The Doors of Perception.
They shared the composer's taste for hard spirits especially Aldous Huxley, with whom Stravinsky spoke in French ".
He was on the editorial board, with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley, of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie published 1919 1921.
* Dawn and the Darkest Hour: A Study of Aldous Huxley 1972
* Aldous Huxley Crome Yellow
* Aldous Huxley The Devils of Loudun ; Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
* Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception
* February 14 Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley
* Aldous Huxley The Crows of Pearblossom ( published posthumously )
Weldon was born in Birmingham, England to a literary family, with both her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson ( 1863 1938 ), and her mother Margaret writing novels ( the latter under the nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, alter-ego of the eponymous character in Aldous Huxley's short story, " Farcical History of Richard Greenow ").
Alan ( Harold ) Aldous ( 14 November 1923 24 February 1992 ) was a teacher who was headmaster of two schools.
Mr Aldous was Assistant Master at St. Dunstan's College, Catford, 1949 54 and at Merchant Taylors ' School, Crosby, 1954 59.
Mr Aldous was Assistant Master at St. Dunstan's College, Catford, 1949 54 and at Merchant Taylors ' School, Crosby, 1954 59.

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