'''Aldous Huxley''' (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was a [[English]] author and literary critic, he is best known for his 1931 novel [[Brave New World]].
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'''Aldous Huxley''' (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was a [[English]] author and literary critic; he is best known for his novel [[Brave New World]] (1932). Besides novels he writhed: histories, poems, plays, travel books and essays on: arts, religion, morals, philosophy and general sociology.
Late in his life he began experimenting with [[LSD]], became a guru for hippies in [[California]] and studied [[Hinduism]]
Late in his life he began experimenting with [[LSD]], became a guru for hippies in [[California]] and studied [[Hinduism]]
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From 1937 until his death in 1963, Huxley lived in [[Los Angeles]]. In 1959, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit.