The English novelist and essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley was born in July 26, 1894 and died Nov. 22, 1963. He was a member of a very scientific and literary family. He intended to study medicine but was prevented from doing so by an eye ailment that almost blinded him at the age of 16. He then decided to turn to literature and published two volumes of poetry while he was still a student at Oxford. He became famous by his first novel, Crome Yellow (1921), which was a humorous satire on the intellectual conceit of his time.
Huxley's early comic novels demonstrate his ability to exaggerate intellectual debate in fiction. …
