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“Aldous Huxley” (author), c. 1940’s, vintage silver print, 11 x 14 The English novelist and essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley, b. July
26, 1894, d. Nov. 22, 1963, intended to study medicine, but was
prevented by an eye ailment that almost blinded him at the age of
16. He then turned to literature, publishing two volumes of poetry
while still a student at Oxford. His reputation was firmly established
by his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), a witty satire on the intellectual
pretensions of his time. |
