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Entry Updated : 03/30/2004
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Aldous Huxley
Birth Date :
1894
Death Date :
1963
Known As :
Huxley, Aldous Leonard
Place of Birth:
United Kingdom,Godalming
Place of Death:
United States,California,Los Angeles
Nationality :
British
Occupation :
Writer
Personal Information:

Family: Born July 26, 1894, in Godalming, Surrey, England; died November 22, 1963, in Hollywood, CA; son of Leonard and Julia (Arnold) Huxley; married Maria Nys, 1919 (died, 1955); married Laura Archera, 1956; children: Matthew. Education: Balliol College, Oxford, B.A., 1916. Hobbies and other interests: Painting, walking, playing piano, "riding in fast cars." Memberships: Athenaeum Club.

Writings:

NOVELS

  • Crome Yellow, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1921, Doran (New York, NY), 1922, reprinted, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1963, Harper (New York, NY), 1965.
  • (Translator) R. de Gourmont, A Virgin Heart, N. L. Brown, 1921.
  • Antic Hay (also see below), Doran, 1923.
  • Those Barren Leaves, Doran, 1925, reprinted, Avon (New York, NY), 1964.
  • Point Counter Point, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1928, reprinted, Harper (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Brave New World (also see below), Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1932, reprinted, Bantam (New York, NY), 1960, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom, published as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Chelsea House (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Eyeless in Gaza, Harper (New York, NY), 1936, reprinted, Bantam (New York, NY), 1968.
  • After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Harper (New York, NY), 1939, reprinted, 1965.
  • Time Must Have a Stop, Harper (New York, NY), 1944.
  • Ape and Essence, Harper (New York, NY), 1948.
  • The Genius and the Goddess, Harper (New York, NY), 1955.
  • Antic Hay and The Gioconda Smile (also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
  • Brave New World [and] Brave New World Revisited (also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1960.
  • Island, Harper (New York, NY), 1962.
SHORT STORIES
  • Limbo: Six Stories and a Play, Doran, 1920.
  • Mortal Coils: Five Stories (also see below), Doran, 1922, reprinted, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1968.
  • Little Mexican and Other Stories, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1924, reprinted, 1959.
  • Young Archimedes and Other Stories, Doran, 1924.
  • Two or Three Graces: Four Stories, Doran, 1925, reprinted, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1963.
  • Brief Candles, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1930, reprinted, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1970.
  • The Gioconda Smile, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1938.
  • Collected Short Stories, Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
  • The Crows of Pearblossom, Random House (New York, NY), 1968.
POETRY
  • The Burning Wheel, B. H. Blackwell (London, England), 1916.
  • The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems, Longmans, Green (London, England), 1918.
  • Leda and Other Poems, Doran, 1920.
  • Selected Poems, Appleton, 1925.
  • Arabia Infelix and Other Poems, Fountain Press, 1929.
  • Apennine, Slide Mountain Press, 1930.
  • The Cicadas and Other Poems, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1931.
  • The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley, edited by Donald Watt, Harper (New York, NY), 1971.
PLAYS
  • Francis Sheridan's The Discovery, Adapted for the Modern Stage, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1924, Doran, 1925.
  • The World of Light: A Comedy in Three Acts, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1931.
  • The Gioconda Smile (adapted from Huxley's short story), Harper (New York, NY), 1948, also published as Mortal Coils, Harper, 1948.
  • Now More than Ever, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 2000.
NONFICTION
  • Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist, Doran, 1925, reprinted, Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
  • Jesting Pilate: An Intellectual Holiday, Doran, 1926, reprinted, Greenwood (Westport, CT), 1974, published in England as Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1957.
  • Essays New and Old, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1926, Doran, 1927, reprinted, Ayer, 1968.
  • Proper Studies: The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1927, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1928, reprinted, Chatto & Windus, 1957.
  • Do What You Will (essays), Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1929, reprinted, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1970.
  • Holy Face and Other Essays, Fleuron, 1929.
  • Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1930, Haskell House, 1966.
  • Music at Night and Other Essays, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1930, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1931, reprinted, Books for Libraries Press, 1970.
  • On the Margin: Notes and Essays, Doran, 1932, reprinted, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1971.
  • Beyond the Mexique Bay: A Traveller's Journal, Harper (New York, NY), 1934, reprinted, Greenwood (Westport, CT), 1975.
  • 1936 . . . Peace?, Friends Peace Committee (London, England), 1936.
  • The Olive Tree and Other Essays, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1936, Harper (New York, NY), 1937, reprinted, Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
  • What Are You Going to Do about It? The Case for Constructive Peace, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1936.
  • An Encyclopedia of Pacifism, Harper (New York, NY), 1937, reprinted, Garland (New York, NY), 1972.
  • Ends and Means: An Inquiry in the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization, Harper (New York, NY), 1937, reprinted, Greenwood (Westport, CT), 1969.
  • The Most Agreeable Vice, [Los Angeles, CA], 1938.
  • Words and Their Meanings, Ward Ritchie Press, 1940.
  • Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics, Harper (New York, NY), 1941, reprinted, 1975.
  • The Art of Seeing, Harper (New York, NY), 1942, reprinted, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1964.
  • The Perennial Philosophy, Harper (New York, NY), 1945, reprinted, Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
  • Science, Liberty, and Peace, Harper (New York, NY), 1946.
  • (With Sir John Russell) Food and People, [London, England], 1949.
  • Prisons, with the "Carceri" Etchings by G. B. Piranesi, Grey Falcon Press, 1949.
  • Themes and Variations, Harper (New York, NY), 1950.
  • (With Stuart Gilbert) Joyce, the Artificer: Two Studies of Joyce's Method, Chiswick (London, England), 1952.
  • The Devils of London, Harper (New York, NY), 1952.
  • (With J. A. Kings) A Day in Windsor, Britannicus Liber (London, England), 1953.
  • The French of Paris, Harper (New York, NY), 1954.
  • The Doors of Perception, Harper (New York, NY), 1954, reprinted, 1970.
  • Heaven and Hell, Harper (New York, NY), 1956, reprinted, 1971.
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Other Essays, Harper (New York, NY), 1956, published in England as Adonis and the Alphabet and Other Essays, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1956.
  • A Writer's Prospect--III: Censorship and Spoken Literature, [London, England], 1956.
  • Brave New World Revisited, Harper (New York, NY), 1958.
  • Collected Essays, Harper (New York, NY), 1959.
  • On Art and Artists: Literature, Painting, Architecture, Music, Harper (New York, NY), 1960.
  • Selected Essays, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1961.
  • The Politics of Ecology: The Question of Survival, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (Santa Barbara, CA), 1963.
  • Literature and Science (also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1963.
  • New Fashioned Christmas, Hart Press, 1968.
  • America and the Future, Pemberton Press, 1970.
  • The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959, edited by Piero Ferrucci, Harper (New York, NY), 1977.
  • The Basic Philosophy of Aldous Huxley, American Institute of Psychology, 1984.
  • Between the Wars: Essays and Letters, Ivan R. Dee (Chicago, IL), 1994.
  • The Hidden Huxley: Contempt and Compassion for the Masses, 1920-36, Faber (Boston, MA), 1994.
  • Aldous Huxley's Hearst Essays, Garland (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Complete Essays, Ivan R. Dee (Chicago, IL), 2000.
COLLECTIONS
  • Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology with Commentaries, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1932, Harper (New York, NY), 1933, reprinted, Norton (New York, NY), 1962.
  • Rotunda: A Selection from the Works of Aldous Huxley, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1932.
  • Retrospect: An Omnibus of His Fiction and Non-Fiction over Three Decades, Harper (New York, NY), 1947, reprinted, Peter Smith, 1971.
  • The Letters of Aldous Huxley, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1969, Harper (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley, Harper (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Collected Works, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1970.
  • The Wisdom of the Ages, two volumes, Found Class Reprints, 1989.
OTHER
  • Jonah, Gotham (New York, NY), 1977.
  • Moksha, edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1977.
  • (With Christopher Isherwood) Jacob's Hands, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.

Author of screenplay Woman's Vengeance, based on his own novel The Gioconda Smile, 1947, and, with others, of screenplays Pride and Prejudice, 1940, Jane Eyre, 1944, and Madame Curie.

Contributor to numerous periodicals, including Life, Playboy, Encounter, and Daedalus.

A collection of Huxley's original manuscripts is housed at the University of California, Berkeley.

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, 2004
Gale Database: Contemporary Authors Online
Source Citation: " Aldous Huxley." 2004. Books & Authors. Gale. Gale Internal User 2 Sep 2010 <http://books.wiseto.com/bna/start.do?p=BNA&u=gale>