Aldous Huxley Book summary

Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England in 1894, to a line of scientists and intellectuals. Throughout his life, Huxley remained interested in both Science and Literature although he was forced to abandon his scientific training due to a severe sickness that nearly left him blind. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and began his career as a journalist by writing book reviews and criticisms. He moved to California when the news of war began to brew in Europe, as he was a pacifist. He continued to write late into his life, but his most successful work remained The Brave New World. He wrote for Hollywood movies and authored essays critical of the social conditions. In his later life, he became a proponent of the use of psychedelic drugs like LSD that he believed could be useful in clearing the perception of the people in understanding the reality of the world. Huxley died of cancer on the same day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Texas.