Today in history, july 26, 1894, the birth of the famous English writer Ados Huxley

The Huxley family, whose grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley of evolution, whose son was matthew Huxley, a well-known writer, anthropologist and epidemiologist; a graduate of Eton College and Oxford; he had superhuman foresight over the contradictions in human life and served as an interrogator of social morality, standards, and ideals; and his novel Brave New World. Together with "We" and "1984", it is known as the "Dystopian Trilogy" and is recognized as one of the most classic dystopian literature of the twentieth century.

Ados Leonard Huxley was born in 1894 into the famous Huxley family of Godelming, Surrey, England. His grandfather was thomas henry huxley, a biologist and proponent of evolution.

He studied at Eton College as a teenager and graduated from Bailiol College, Oxford University.

I wanted to be a doctor, but because of my visual impairment, I changed my original intentions and engaged in literature.

As the son of a biologist, he received a good education from an early age. He has superhuman foresight over the contradictions in human life. Although an eye disease nearly left him with complete loss of vision, after learning Braille, he gradually began to write.

He completed his first novel (unpublished) at the age of 17.

After the age of 20, he began to write seriously. His original novels were social satires, beginning with Krom Yello (1921).

In 1919, he married Maria Niss, a Belgian woman he met in Garsington, and had a son.

During World War I, Huxley spent most of his time at Mrs. Morrell's Garsington estate. Here he met several members of the Bloomsbury Faction, including Bertrand Russell and Clive Bell.

In the 1920s, the family lived in Italy for a while, and Huxley visited his friend David Herbert Lawrence.

After Lawrence's death in 1930, he edited Lawrence's letters. During this time, his work included novels that reflected the dehumanizing side of technological development, the most famous of which was Brave New World, as well as pacifist works such as The Blind Man in Gaza.

Brave New World, created in 1932, left his name in history. Brave New World is a hard science fiction novel by Ados Huxley. In Brave New World, Huxley depicts a society based on the principles of mass production and Pavlovian conditioning. He was deeply influenced by Matthias Alexander and wrote him into The Blind Man of Gaza.

Huxley began writing and editing nonfiction works on pacifism during this period, including Ends and Means, the Pacifist Encyclopedia, and Pacifism and Philosophy, and was an active member of the Alliance of Commitments to Peace.

In 1936, he created "Blind Eyes in Gaza".

He lived in the United States for the rest of his life. In 1937, Huxley moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, along with his wife Maria, son Matthew, and friend Gerald Hurd. He lived primarily in southern California until his death.

In 1939, he created "After a Few Summers".

(In 1944, he wrote "Time Must Stand Still.")

(In 1955, he created "Genius and Goddess".

In 1955 his wife Niss died of breast cancer. In 1956 he married the writer Laura Acella.

Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 1960. In the years that followed, Huxley, who was in diminutive health, wrote the utopian novel The Island. The Island, Huxley's last book published in 1962 and Huxley's most famous work after Brave New World, explores many of the themes and ideas that interested him in the decades after World War II and rearranges what he failed to express in Brave New World.

The book is seen as a science fiction novel, but it is not fictional, because every way of life he describes in The Island is not the product of his fantasies, but has been tried somewhere, some of which exists in our own daily lives. The title "Island" was also borrowed by Guo Jingming.

Huxley was suffering from illness on his deathbed, and Huxley was unable to speak, and he asked his wife Laura by handwriting for "lygopropyldiethylamine, 100 mg, intramuscular injection". According to Laura's account in The Moments That Passed, she obeyed, completing one injection at 11:45 a.m. and another hours later.

Huxley died on 22 November 1963. Kennedy died at the age of 69 hours after his assassination.

His ashes were placed in a family grave at Compton Watts Cemetery in Surrey, England.

He is best known for his novels and numerous prose works, and has published short stories, travelogues, film stories, and screenplays. He wrote more than 50 novels, poems, philosophical works, and travelogues.

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer.

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