Aldous Huxley

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.

## See also[edit]

* Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
* Big government Welfare state leads to Nanny state, leads to Police state
* Liberal totalitarianism
* We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
* Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
* Mystery:Did George Orwell Become a Conservative?
* Animal Farm \- anti-Stalinist "fairy story" by George Orwell
* Brave New World
* H. G. Wells
* G.K. Chesterton

## References[edit]

1. ↑ His death was largely overlooked as it was on the same day of the Kennedy assassination.

## External links[edit]

* Aldous Huxley - Biography
* BRAVE NEW WORLD