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.

Later, discussing the works of Aldous Huxley, Eliade wrote that the British author's use of mescaline as a source of inspiration had something in common with his own experience, indicating 1945 as a date of reference and adding that it was " needless to explain why that is ".

Aldous Huxley, who wrote a widely read book on the subject, defined the perennial philosophy as:

In 1968 Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote an opera The Devils of Loudun, based on Aldous Huxley's novel and John Whithing's theatre play.

Aldous Huxley spent some time here before he wrote Crome Yellow, a book which contains a ridiculous character obviously intended as a caricature of Lady Ottoline Morrell ; she never forgave him.

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.

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.

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

In 1956, Aldous Huxley wrote a letter in which he thanks his correspondent for " your most interesting letter about the Native American churchmen " ( note capitalization ).

# " Do What You Will " by Aldous Huxley ( 1936 )

Examples of Hollywood novels include The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg, The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald, After Many A Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley, Inside Daisy Clover by Gavin Lambert, The Deer Park by Norman Mailer, I Should Have Stayed Home by Horace McCoy, Michael Tolkin's The Player and The Return of the Player, and Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays.

A fictional universe can be contained in a single work, as in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, or in serialized, series-based, open-ended or round robin-style fiction.

According to Aldous Huxley, in order to apprehend the divine reality, one must choose to fulfill certain conditions: “ making themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit .” Huxley argues that very few people can achieve this state.

Like the outlook of his friend Aldous Huxley ( another in this circle ), the essence of Heard ’ s mature outlook was that a human being can effectively pursue intentional evolution of consciousness.

Social criticism can also be expressed in a fictional form, e. g., in a revolutionary novel like The Iron Heel by Jack London or in dystopian novels like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) or George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), children's books or films.

* Some eye defects may naturally change for the better with age or in cycles ( ophthalmologist Stewart Duke-Elder suggested that this is what happened with Aldous Huxley ).

In the introduction to his book Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, than by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, where they were oppressed by state control.

Furthermore, she avoided the Hollywood parties, and was quoted saying: " I'd rather meet Aldous Huxley than Clark Gable.

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

His main thesis was that the Swedish social democratic party, like the " new totalitarians " in Aldous Huxley ’ s Brave New World, relied less upon the violence and intimidation of the old totalitarians than upon sly persuasion and soft manipulation in order to achieve its goals.