In adulthood, Huxley’s older brothers, Julian and Andrew, would both become accomplished biologists, and Huxley himself envisioned a future career in science from an early age.īut while he was still a boy, Huxley’s life would be upended by tragedy. Huxley, an early proponent of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution his father, Leonard, was a teacher and writer and his mother, Julia, was a descendant of the English poet Matthew Arnold. The fourth child in a family with a deep intellectual history, his grandfather was the noted biologist and naturalist T. Early LifeĪldous Huxley was born in Godalming, England, on July 26, 1894. Huxley moved to the United States in 1937 and for the rest of his life maintained a prolific output of novels, nonfiction, screenplays and essays. A dark vision of the future, it is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. He followed with several more equally successful satirical novels before publishing the work for which he is best known, Brave New World. Five years later he published his debut novel Crome Yellow, which brought him his first taste of success. In 1916 he graduated with honors from Balliol College at Oxford University and published a collection of poems. After a serious illness left him partially blind as a youth, Aldous Huxley abandoned his dreams of becoming a scientist to pursue a literary career.
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