Aldous Leonard Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Hismost famous work is Brave New World and he is also known as an excellent essayist. Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film storiesand scripts.
Aldous Huxley was a humanist and pacifist, and he was then interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He is also well known for advocating andtaking psychedelics.
By the end of his life Huxley was considered a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank, and he was regarded as one of the most prominent explorers ofvisual communication and sight-related theories.
Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's fifth novel, written in 1931 and published in 1932. The story takes place in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book),and it anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is a personification of the ideals that form the basis of futurology.Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962). Brave New World was inspired by H. G. Wells' utopiannovel Men Like Gods. Wells' optimistic vision of the future gave Huxley the idea to begin writing a parody of the novel, which became Brave New World.
When writing this novel, Huxley sought toprovide a frightening vision of the future. Huxley referred to Brave New World as a "negative utopia”. Although the novel is set in the future, it contains contemporary issues of the early 20th century. TheIndustrial Revolution had transformed the world. Mass production had made cars, telephones, and radios relatively cheap and widely available throughout the developed world. The political, cultural,...