Aldous Leonard Huxley
He was born in 26 of July
of 1894 near Godalmin, Surrey, England. His parents were Leonard Huxley English
school teacher and Julia Arnold, he had three brothers Julia Huxley a
half-brother Andrew Huxley they both were outstanding biologists. Aldous third
brother named Noel Trevelyan Huxley, who committed suicide after a period of
clinical depression. He pulled himself harder because all his family was
important and he also wanted to be recognized.
What we could say about his educational
background is that his mother was his teacher, because he was blind, he studied
in a school named hillside after hillside Huxley was educated at Eton College,
once his eyes recovered he was able to study English literature at Balliol
College.
Crome Yellow(1921), Antic Hay(1921),
Those Barren Leaves(1925), Point Counter Point(1928), Brave New World(1932),
Eveless in Gaza(1936) After Many A Summer(1939), Time Must Have a Stop(1944),
Ape and Essence(1948), The Genius and the Goddess(1955), Island(1962).
The
events that obviously influenced in Huxley life was the dead of two of his
nearest familiars, his nearly blindness leaves him aside from the first world
war, the event that obviously change his way of thinking was the early dead of
Julia Arnold his mother, when he was only 14 years old.
Huxley made a request (written) to his wife Laura saying ”LSD, 100g,
intramuscular”, she injected him an injection at 11:45am and a second one a few
hours letter; he dies aged 69, at 5:20pm on 22 of November of 1963. How Huxley
died at the same day that John F. Kennedy.