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

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 during these years that he met several prominent literary figures, including T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley.

The novel Brave New World ( 1931 ), by Aldous Huxley discussed several ways their society was effectively dumbed down to maintain stability and social order.

It is renowned as one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, and Aldous Huxley famously wrote of it: " Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes.

A brief relationship with Aldous Huxley influenced several of his novels.

A " sexually ambivalent " young man (' Murugan Mailendra ') in Aldous Huxley's Island ( 1962 ) is likened to Antinous, and his lover Colonel Dipa ( an older man ) to Hadrian, after the narrator discovers the two are having a secret affair.

Aldous Huxley's novel, " After Many a Summer Dies the Swan " was titled after a verse from the Lord Tennyson poem " Tithonus.

* In Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley Forever Amber makes an appearance after Dr Poole's release to the Facts of Life where he is sleeping under guard of two Postulants, one who is himself asleep ; the other who is ' absorbed in an ancient copy of Forever Amber.

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.

White had experimented with LSD at UCLA after hearing about it from Aldous Huxley and decided to work it into the script as well.

Aldous ' near-blindness disqualified him from service in the First World War.

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

One such book is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which satirically describes a world in which gene therapy and human cloning have destroyed any sense of individuality.

Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World envisions a futuristic world in which large numbers of clones are cultivated industrially and conditioned before birth for specific castes.

" Another science fiction project associated with Scott is an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with Leonardo DiCaprio potentially involved.

Related to Social SF and Soft SF are the speculative fiction branches of utopian or dystopian stories ; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, are examples.

A number of respected writers of mainstream literature have written science fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Anton de Bary invented the concept of symbiosis ; several Russian biologists promoted the idea ; Edwin Wilson mentioned it in his text The Cell ; as did Ivan Emmanuel Wallin in his Symbionticism and the origin of species ; and there was a brief mention by Julian Huxley in 1930 ; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking.

These include several novels and nonfiction books, including novels by Elspeth Huxley, Hanns Heinz Ewers, and François Augiéras.

The Huxley family is a British family of which several members have excelled in scientific, medical, artistic, and literary fields.