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[[File:Aldous Huxley psychical researcher.png|thumb|300px|Aldous Huxley in 1954]]
'''Aldous Leonard Huxley''' (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Best known for his novels including ''[[Brave New World]]'', set in a [[dystopian]] London, ''[[The Doors of Perception]]'', which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine ''Oxford Poetry'', and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
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* [[Irony]]: Wrote a book about a society that keeps it's people high to enforce a dystopia, which he portrayed as a bad thing, yet he did mind altering substances himself.▼
* [[Older Than They Think]]: Huxley was the first person to ever portray (correctly) that alcohol can stunt development in infants in ''[[Brave New World]]''. While the manner in which is used is inaccurate to how it works in real life (there are no exact amounts of alcohol that will cause discrete damage), he got most of the symptoms correct long before science came to the same conclusions.▼
▲* [[Irony]] Wrote a book about a society that keeps it's people high to enforce a dystopia, which he portrayed as a bad thing, yet he did mind altering substances himself.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Stated later in life he wished he had written a book that offered a middle course between the two types of society he portrayed in ''[[Brave New World]]''.▼
▲* [[Older Than They Think]]: Huxley was the first person to ever portray (correctly) that alcohol can stunt development in infants in [[Brave New World]]. While the manner in which is used is inaccurate to how it works in real life (there are no exact amounts of alcohol that will cause discrete damage), he got most of the symptoms correct long before science came to the same conclusions.
▲* [[Take a Third Option]]: Stated later in life he wished he had written a book that offered a middle course between the two types of society he portrayed in [[Brave New World]].
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