Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. He was a member of the famous Huxley family who produced a number of brilliant scientific minds. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, societal norms and ideals, and possible misapplications of science in human life. While his earlier concerns might be called "humanist," ultimately, he became quite interested in "spiritual" subjects like parapsychology and mystically based philosophy, which he also wrote about. By the end of his life, Huxley was considered, in certain learned circles, a 'leader of modern thought'.

Selected works

Novels

• Crome Yellow (1921)
• Antic Hay (1923)
• Those Barren Leaves (1925)
• Point Counter Point (1928)
• Brave New World (1932)
• Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
• After Many a Summer (1939)
• Time Must Have a Stop (1944)
• Ape and Essence (1948)
• The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
• Island (1962)

Short stories

• Limbo (1920)
• Mortal Coils (1922)
• Brief Candles (1930)
• Two or Three Graces
• Little Mexican
• Jacob's Hands; A Fable (Late 1930s)

Poetry

• The Burning Wheel (1916)
• Jonah (1917)
• The Defeat of Youth (1918)
• Leda (1920)
• Arabia Infelix (1929)
• The Cicadias and Other Poems (1931)

Travel writing

• Along The Road (1925)
• Jesting Pilate (1926)
• Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934)

Essays

• Do What You Will (1929)
• The Olive Tree (1936)
• The Art of Seeing (1942)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)
• The Doors of Perception (1954)
• Heaven and Hell (1956)
• Brave New World Revisited (1958)
• Literature and Science (1963)

Philosophy

• Ends and Means (1937)
• The Perennial Philosophy (1944) ISBN 006057058X

Biography

• Grey Eminence (1941)
• The Devils of Loudun (1952)

Children's literature

• The Crows of Pearblossom (1967)

Collections

• Text and Pretext (1933)
• Collected Short Stories (1957)
• Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1977)