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.

* July 26 – Aldous Huxley, English author ( d. 1963 )

Because the Cardinal de Richelieu, the power behind the throne of King Louis XIII of France, as a Catholic cardinal was styled Son Eminence (" His Eminence "), his alter ego Père Joseph was called l ' éminence grise ( which is also the English title of his biography by Aldous Huxley ).

In 1959, UCSB Professor Douwe Stuurman hosted the English writer Aldous Huxley as the university's first visiting professor.

English novelist Aldous Huxley, in his last novel Island wrote that Maithuna, the Yoga of Love is ... " the same as what Roman Catholicism means by coitus reservatus.

In 1953, Osmond gave English author Aldous Huxley a dose of mescaline.

Island is the final book by English writer Aldous Huxley, published in 1962.

Rolfe ), Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, the famous ' unfinished ' novel Weir of Hermiston ( 1896 ) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu ( Remembrance of Things Past, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922 ), amongst others.

This may be his best-known work ; Aldous Huxley brought the French edition to the attention of an English publisher, and thus brought it to English readers.

Llano was once the home of English writer Aldous Huxley.

Aldous Huxley wrote an English biography of Leclerc entitled Grey Eminence.

* The English author Aldous Huxley includes a long passage ( chapter 20 ) about the word " carminative " in his novel Crome Yellow.

* Died: Aldous Huxley, 69, English novelist ; C. S. Lewis, 64, Irish novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist

* Grey Eminence ( 1941 ) is the English language biography of Leclerc by Aldous Huxley.

Another author Merton began reading at this time was Aldous Huxley, whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism.

* February 14 – Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley

* Aldous Huxley marries author Laura Archera.

Modern commentators on the case, such as the author Aldous Huxley, have argued that the accusations began after Grandier refused to become the spiritual director of the convent, unaware that the Mother Superior, Sister Jeanne of the Angels, had become obsessed with him, having seen him from afar and heard of his sexual exploits.

Although many of Bates ' patients and followers of his methods have reported of successful results, ( most famously from author Aldous Huxley ), his methods have garnered much opposition from mainstream optometry.

Her character's name is a reference to Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, and Lenina Crowne, a character in Brave New World.

He was the author of more than 50 books, and as a publisher's editor helped other writers including Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey.

* Aldous Huxley ( 1894 – 1963 ), author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception

Heard made arrangements to have Smith meet the legendary author Aldous Huxley.

In his book The Doors of Perception, author and psychonaut Aldous Huxley presents the idea of the Mind at Large.

Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley and published in 1921.

THH's grandsons include Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and Doors of Perception, his brother Julian Huxley, evolutionist and first director of UNESCO, and Nobel laureate physiologist Andrew Huxley.

Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley ; it was published in 1921.

Dramas included " Suspense ," " Gunsmoke ," " Dr. Christian ," " The Whistler ," " Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar ," " The CBS Radio Workshop " ( author Aldous Huxley introduced a production of " Brave New World ") and " Columbia Presents Corwin " ( dramas produced by Norman Corwin.