Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley was born July 26, 1894. His family was wealthy and influential and has a great effect on his works later in life. When he was fourteen, his mother died of cancer, and when he was 16, he was diagnosed with an eye illness that left him almost totally blind. He attended Oxford, but because of his viaual impairment, he was unable to become a scientist like he had dreamed. He married Maria Nys, with whom he had his only child in 1920. He wrote Brave New World in 1931. The whole process him three months. He went on to become a screenwriter, and wrote the screenplay for Pride and Prejudice, starring Lawrence Olivier. Huxley produced 47 books in his career as a writer. After his wife died, he married Laura Archerra. He died November 22, 1963, the same day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.