Beta Group: Brave New World

                                            Author Information

Aldous Huxley was a writer who lived from the year 1894 to the year 1963. He was born in England into a family of scientists. Huxley was one of four children. He had a very tough life, losing his mother at the age of fourteen and later he suffered with a disease that left him almost completely blind. Not long after, one of his brothers committed suicide. Despite his loss of sight, Huxley obtained a degree in literature. With this degree not only did he write novels he also wrote many short stories and poems. Although among all of his work the novel “Brave New World” was by far the most popular and is what he is mostly remembered for to this day. After Aldous moved to Hollywood, California he became a screen writer, while doing this he continued to write novels and essays. Despite all of his success, in the 1950s he started to experiment with drugs including LSD, mescaline, and other psychedelic drugs. While on these drugs he began to write novels one of which was titled, “the Doors of Perception”. This novel was highly worshiped by many “hippies”. Not only did was it worshiped by the hippies but it also was the inspiration for the band name of the doors.He died at the age of 69, by the end of his life he wrote a total of 47 books.

 

   Here are some random facts you may not have known about the life of Aldous Huxley; Disney rejected his screen play of Alice in wonderland, Huxley is on an album cover of a famous band, the title of his novel “the doors of perception” was taken from a line in another book, before his death he requested his wife to give him LSD a few hours before he died,he died high on LSD but not due to the LSD.

 

 

                                                        Citations

              1) (http://www.egs.edu/library/aldous-huxley/biography/).

 

             2) (http://www.quirkbooks.com/post/happy-birthday-aldous-huxley-some-                     interesting-facts-about-his-life).