Aldous Huxley was the grandson of biologist/Darwinist T. H. Huxley.
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Huxley co-wrote the screenplay for "The Loved One" (directed by Tony Richardson), based on Evelyn Waugh's novel.
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Postman saw Huxley as a true prophet of the modern age and he believed that Huxley's vision in BRAVE NEW WORLD, of a world ruled by pleasure, had come to pass.
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Aldous Huxley, a real-life friend of Sybille Bedford, appears in her novel JIGSAW. (Bedford also wrote Huxley's biography.)
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"I'm not a born novelist. It does not come easy to me. I've to struggle and work hard to get it out--not like Balzac for instance through whom it just flowed;--the novel form is wonderful if you can achieve it. As we grow in years, it becomes more difficult to write a mere novel--all meditation technique is just to open up our own layers of consciousness and experience--to feel the richness of awareness and not for any particular achievement or results....'"
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Aldous Huxley was the third son of Leonard Huxley, a teacher, editor, and author, and the former Julia Arnold, a schoolmistress. His paternal grandfather was the famed scientist Thomas Henry Huxley (a noted defender of the theories of Charles Darwin, and the person who coined the term "agnostic"), and a maternal great-uncle was the poet and critic Matthew Arnold. Their grandfather's mantle was taken up by Huxley's older brother Julian, who became a noted biologist. Aldous was planning on a caree more...
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