Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He is best known for his novels, including Brave New World (1932), and for non-fiction works, such as The Doors of Perception (1954). He was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, the third son of Leonard Huxley, a biographer and editor, and Julia Arnold, a niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating, he worked as a teacher and journalist. Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), was a satire of the post-World War I literary scene. His most famous work, Brave New World (1932), is a dystopian novel about a future society in which people are conditioned to be content with their lives. His other novels include Point Counter Point (1928), Eyeless in Gaza (1936), and Island (1962). Huxley also wrote non-fiction works, including The Perennial Philosophy (1945), The Doors of Perception (1954), and Heaven and Hell (1956). He was a proponent of psychedelic drugs, and his writings on the subject influenced the 1960s counterculture. Huxley died in Los Angeles, California, in 1963. He is remembered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
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