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Aldous Huxley.
26 July is the birth anniversary of the British author and philosopher Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).
Born in the prominent Huxley family, he was educated in Eton and Oxford. Huxley published his first novel in 1916. He published around 50 works, Brave New World (1932) being his best known novel.
In Oxford he came into contact with the Bloomsbury group led by eminent philosophers like Bertrand Russell and AN Whitehead who greatly influenced his thinking and writing.
He migrated to the USA in 1937 where he had a lucrative career in writing screen plays for films. In 1938, he met the Indian philosopher J Krishnamoorthy and became a lifelong proponent of the Vedanta philosophy.
Huxley never won a Nobel Prize even though he was nominated 9 times.
– Joy Kallivayalil.
