Aldous Huxley

Author of

Brave New World

Published in 1932

Words worth defining before or as you read the novel:

• Utopia• Satire• Science Fiction• Totalitarianism• Caste System

About Huxley himself:•Born on July 26, 1894, in Surrey England•Died on November 22, 1964 (which is the same day as the JFK assassination)•Grandson of T.H. Huxley (famous scientist)•Lost his mother at age 14•Blind 2-3 years (nearly blind all his life)•Attended Oxford University – degree in literature

More about Huxley:• Critical of British governmental structure• Brave New World was written before the reign of

Hitler and Stalin in Germany & Russia, respectively

• Satirical novelist• Associated with D.H. Lawrence (another novelist

and poet) in Italy in the 1930s• Moved to California & New Mexico in1937; died

in the U.S.

Aldous Huxley