Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher whose 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World imagined a future of consumerist conditioning, genetic stratification, and pharmacological pacification that became one of the defining warnings of the 20th century. Across nearly 50 books he produced novels, philosophical essays, and screenplays, including the late nonfiction work The Doors of Perception (1954) on his experiments with mescaline. He moved to the United States in 1937 and worked variously as a Hollywood screenwriter and a Vedanta-influenced essayist before his death on the same day as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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