Friday, February 13, 2015

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was a British writer most well know for his novels. His most impacted novel was Brave New World. Huxley also wrote some short stories and some poems. At age 14, he lost his mother and became ill with a terrible disease that left him blind. Before he became I'll he was heavily interested in science, but now because he was blind it was hard for him to follow up with that. So he turned to writing literature. In 1918 his father stopped funding him for schooling which left him on his own. In order to make a living he turned to writing. At Oxford University he became good friends with the famous writer D.H. Lawrence. Brave New World he wrote in only 4 months. His early works were more centered on forms of humanism, but as time went on he became more interested in spirtual questions.