Tall, witty, charismatic, conspicuously handsome, a polymath, Aldous Huxley was an intellectual lighthouse for over forty years. He wrote poetry; drama; screenplays; journalism; biography; social, scientific, and intellectual history; he was a...

Novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley has been described by New Statesman contributor V. S. Pritchett as "that rare being--the prodigy, the educable young man, the perennial asker of unusual questions." Defining Huxley as a hybrid "artist-educator,"...

Aldous Huxley earned widespread attention in the 1920s as a promising young fiction writer who wrote brilliant and scathing stories about British writers and intellectuals gathered around socialite Ottoline Morrell. He soon became widely recognized as...

Among intellectuals Aldous Huxley 's reputation as a novelist flourished in the 1920s. His literary accomplishments span many genres: poetry, essays, plays, journalism, historical studies, travel works, screenplays, and short stories. Like the novels,...

For four decades Aldous Huxley was a major figure in the literary mainstream, yet he is now chiefly remembered for a novel that is, by any definition, science fiction. In this respect his position is similar to that of H. G. Wells, who wrote much else...

It has often been argued that even in his fiction Aldous Leonard Huxley never ceased to be the essayist. To the extent that, from Crome Yellow (1921) onward, he shared Thomas Love Peacock's interest in ideas as well as in manners, this is a just...

The novels, short stories, and essays of the English author Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) explore crucial questions of science, religion, and philosophy. Aldous Huxley was born into a family of intellectual prominence. His father, Leonard, was the...