Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) is a visionary writer and one of the most astute guides in the intricacies of the future of civilization. Novelist, critic and essayist, author of a vast body of work, a deep interest in science ran through his veins, which would be reflected in his most famous work, Brave New World. He studied literature at Oxford after contracting a serious eye infection as a teenager, and was a teacher of Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) at Eton. He divided his life between Italy, France and the USA, a country that troubled him by its mixture of hedonism and puritanism. From a social satirist and a figure close to the Bloomsbury Group in the 1920s, to his experiments with mescaline and LSD in the 1940s and 1950s, and to his turn to pacifism and mysticism, he continually reinvented himself and is now regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.