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A Short Biography of Aldous Huxley

Author Name:

Aldous Huxley

Born As:

Aldous Leonard Huxley

Other Names:

Born:

26 Jul 1894

Died:

22 Nov 1963




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Novelist, Critic and Atheist                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

Crome Yellow - 1921
Antic Hay - 1923
Those Barren Leaves - 1925
Point Counter Point - 1928
Brave New World - 1932
Eyeless in Gaza - 1936
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan - 1939
Time Must Have a Stop - 1944
Ape and Essence - 1948
The Genius and the Goddess - 1955
Island - 1962
Short stories
Limbo - 1920
Mortal Coils - 1922
Little Mexican - 1924
Two or Three Graces - 1926
Brief Candles - 1930
Jacob's Hands: A Fable - Late 1930s, rediscovered 1997 co-written with Christopher Isherwood
Collected Short Stories - 1957

Poetry:

The Burning Wheel - 1916
Jonah - 1917
The Defeat of Youth - 1918
Leda - 1920
Arabia Infelix - 1929
The Cicadas - 1931
First Philosopher's Song

Travel writing:

Along The Road - 1925
Jesting Pilate - 1926. The author recounts his experiences travelling through six countries, offering his observations on their people, cultures and customs.
Beyond the Mexique Bay - 1934

Drama:

Now More Than Ever - University of Texas, Austin, 1997
The Ambassador of Captripedia - 1967
The Genius and the Goddess - stage version, co-written with Betty Wendel, 1958
Mortal Coils - A Play - stage version of The Gioconda Smile, 1948
The World of Light - 1931
The Discovery - adapted from Francis Sheridan, 1924

Essay Collections:

On the Margin - 1923
Along the Road - 1925
Essays New and Old - 1926
Proper Studies - 1927
Do What You Will - 1929
Vulgarity in Literature - 1930
Music at Night - 1931
Texts and Pretexts - 1932
The Olive Tree - 1936
Words and their Meanings - 1940
The Art of Seeing - 1942
The Perennial Philosophy - 1945
Science, Liberty and Peace - 1946
Themes and Variations - 1950
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - 1952
The Doors of Perception - 1954
Heaven and Hell - 1956
Adonis and the Alphabet - 1956
Collected Essays - 1958
Brave New World Revisited - 1958
Literature and Science - 1963

Articles written for Vedanta and the West - A publication of the Vedanta Society of Southern California from 1938 to 1970:
Distractions - 1941
Distractions II - 1941
Action and Contemplation - 1941
An Appreciation - 1941
The Yellow Mustard - 1941
Lines - 1941
Some Reflections of the Lord's Prayer - 1941
Reflections of the Lord's Prayer - 1942
Reflections of the Lord's Prayer II - 1942
Words and Reality - 1942
Readings in Mysticism - 1942
Man and Reality - 1942
The Magical and the Spiritual - 1942
Religion and Time - 1943
Idolatry - 1943
Religion and Temperment - 1943
A Note on the Bhagavatam - 1943
Seven Meditations - 1943
On a Sentence From Shakespeare - 1944
The Minimum Working Hypothesis - 1944
From a Notebook - 1944
The Philosophy of the Saints - 1944
That Art Thou - 1945
That Art Thou II - 1945
The Nature of the Ground - 1945
The Nature of the Ground II - 1945
God In the World - 1945
Origins and Consequences of Some Contemporary Thought-Patterns - 1946
The Sixth Patriarch - 1946
Some Reflections on Time - 1946
Reflections on Progress - 1947
Further Reflections on Progress - 1947
William Law - 1947
Notes on Zen - 1947
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread - 1948
A Note on Gandhi - 1948
Art and Religion - 1949
Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace - 1950
A Note on Enlightenment - 1952
Substitutes for Liberation - 1952
The Desert - 1954
A Note on Patanjali - 1954
Who Are We? - 1955
Foreword to the Supreme Doctrine - 1956
Knowledge and Understanding - 1956
The "Inanimate" is Alive - 1957
Symbol and Immediate Experience - 1960

Philosophy:
Ends and Means - 1937
The Perennial Philosophy - 1944

Biography and Nonfiction:
The Devils of Loudun - 1953
Grey Eminence - 1941
Selected Letters - 2007

Children's Literature:
The Crows of Pearblossom - 1967
The Travails and Tribulations of Geoffrey Peacock - 1967

Collections:
Texts and Pretexts - 1933
Collected Short Stories - 1957

Collected Essays - 1958
Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience - 1977
The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 - 1977

CD: Two Lectures - Hollywood and Santa Barbara Vedanta temples:
Knowledge and Understanding
Who Are We

Film Adaptations:
Point Counter Point BBC mini-series by Simon Raven - 1969
The Devils - Ken Russell adapted Huxley's The Devils of Loudun - 1971
US TV adaptation of Brave New World - 1998

Essay:

The last Huxley wrote, actually dictated on his death bed, was published in Show Magazine in 1964 soon after his death.
Reprinted in Huxley and God: Essays - 1992 - Harper Collins

                          
Mother Julia Arnold
Father Leonard Huxley
First wife Maria Nys, one son, Matthew
Second wife, Laura Archera Huxley
Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic and controversialist known as Darwin's Bulldog.                          
Awards:

1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for After Many a Summer Dies the Swan - 1939
1959 Aldous Huxley American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit for Brave New World - 1959
1962 the Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature - 1962.
[edit] of Huxley's work                          
Huxley applied for United States citizenship. His application was continuously deferred on the grounds that he would not say he would take up arms to defend the U.S. He claimed a philosophical, rather than a religious objection, and therefore was not exempt under the McCarran Act.

Turned down an offer of a Knight Bachelor by the Macmillan government - 1959.

Huxley took his first dose of LSD - 24 December, 1955. Aldous Huxley's psychedelic drug experiences are described in the essays The Doors of Perception.

Huxley became a Vedantist , a follower of the mystical branch of Hinduism - 1938

C. S. Lewis, who also died on 22 November.