About Author
Aldous Huxley was an English writer and editor who is best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World and its utopian counterpart, Island, his satiric work Crome Yellow, and his essays on a wide range of topics. A humanist, Huxley was recognized during his life as a leading intellectual and researcher into visual communication. In addition to his literary work, Huxley was a credited Hollywood screenwriter for such films as Pride and Prejudice (1940) and Jane Eyre (1944). Huxley died on November 22, 1963, several hours after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the death of fellow author
