biography
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Huxley, Aldous (Leonard)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1963)
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| biography:
| Novelist and essayist, born in Godalming, Surrey, SE England, UK, the grandson of T H Huxley. He studied at Oxford, lived mainly in Italy in the 1920s, (where he met and befriended D H Lawrence) and moved to California in 1937. His early writing included poetry, short stories, and literary journalism, but his reputation was made with his satirical novels Crome Yellow (1921) and Antic Hay (1923). Later novels include Point Counter Point (1928) and, his best-known work, Brave New World (1932), where he warns of the dangers of dehumanization in a scientific age. His later writing became more mystical in character, as in Eyeless in Gaza (1936) and Time Must Have a Stop (1944), while Island (1962) is an optimistic Utopia. |
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