Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was an English novelist, essayist and thinker, one of the great modernists and prophet of twentieth-century thought. His anti-utopia Brave New World, along with satirical early novels such as Antic Hay and the mystical After Many a Summer, made him a permanent voice on technology, freedom and the meaning of life.

Huxley wrote more than fifty books across fiction, travel, science and philosophy, and became a leading interpreter of Eastern mysticism and psychedelics in the West. A descendant of the noted Huxley family, he spent his later decades in California, producing classics such as The Doors of Perception and his final novel Island.