Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was a English author and literary critic; he is best known for his novel Brave New World (1932). Besides novels he wrote: histories, poems (Leda, 1920), plays, travel books and essays on: arts, religion, morals, philosophy and general sociology.
Huxley was friend of D. H. Lawrence with whom he traveled in Italy and France. Late in his life he began experimenting with LSD, became a guru for hippies in California and studied Hinduism
From 1937 until his death in 1963,[1] Huxley lived in Los Angeles. In 1959, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit.
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