For Huxley ’ s biographer and friend, the author Sybille Bedford, the book combined sincerity with simplicity, passion with detachment.

* Sybille Bedford, an author

Aldous Huxley biographer Sybille Bedford claims in her fictive memoir Jigsaw that the novel's characters Mary Amberley, a drug addict, and her daughter, were partly inspired by her own experiences with her morphine-addicted mother and herself, known to Huxley because they were neighbours in the south of France.

* Jigsaw, by Sybille Bedford, BBC Radio 4, ( 2006, 2007 )

* Sybille Bedford, writer, lived in Aldous Huxley's servant's room.

He also published a standard text on heat and thermodynamics, during his later appointment as Professor of Physics at Bedford College, London.

The decades of the 1870s through the 1890s, the " golden age " of America's grand resorts, saw the " resort gold standard " set at Bedford Springs.

* John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford ( 1389 – 1435 ), regranted his dukedom with the standard remainder, died without issue

Supreme I was a 29-seat coach on a Bedford VAS chassis with a standard Plaxton in-swing door located behind the front axle.

It became known as the ' Pretended Act ', and authorised William Russell, the 5th Earl of Bedford, to carry out further work, the chief of which was a second channel parallel to the Bedford River.

Lytle first published a biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general of the American Civil War: Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company ( 1931 ).

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.

It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau, and Aldous Huxley ( uncredited ), adapted from the biography by Eve Curie.

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 ).

The second is in part a sequential biography, and was written near the end of his life ; a significant dimension of its content is his very personal evaluation of the characters and contributions of Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Madame Ouspensky, John G. Bennett ( another direct disciple of Gurdjieff ), Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Stephen Gaskin, Alan Watts, and other figures serving as teachers of those engaged in spiritual quests.

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

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

:" In this profoundly important work, Mr. Huxley ... provides us with an absolute standard of faith by which we can judge both our moral depravity as individuals and the insane and often criminal behaviour of the national societies we have created.

He also published Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch, and a short biography of Darwin.

There is a biography by Christine S. Nicholls, Elspeth Huxley: A Biography ( Harper Collins, 2002 ).

Huxley was a friend of Joy Adamson, the author of Born Free, and is mentioned in the biography of Joy and George Adamson entitled The Great Safari.