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.

* January 30 – Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.

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.

Aldous Huxley ’ s best-selling novel Brave New World, about a future society based on eugenics, was published in 1932.

The book was written by Susan Aldous and Pornchai Sereemongkonpol and published by Maverick House Publishers.

* Aldous Huxley – The Crows of Pearblossom ( published posthumously )

* The Perennial Philosophy, by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK, and by Harper & Row in the US1944, Harper & Brothers.

The same subject was revisited about a century later in the book-length essay, The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley, published in 1952.

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

Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928.

Eyeless in Gaza is a bestselling novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936.

In Aldous Huxley's classic novel ( published 1932 ) about a fictional Brave New World, he integrates Malthusianism as a central theme, replete with numerous mentions of " Malthusian belts ".

Heaven and Hell is a philosophical essay by Aldous Huxley published in 1956.

Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics is a book by Aldous Huxley published in 1941.

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

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

Antic Hay is a comic novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923.

thumbThose Barren Leaves is a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1925.

Beyond the Mexique Bay is a travel book by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1934.

Ape and Essence ( 1948 ) is a novel by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and Harper & Brothers in the US.