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Huxley, Aldous Leonard
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From: Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
Date: 19990101
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Huxley, Aldous Leonard (1894–1963)
British novelist. He spent the last twenty-five years of his life in California, among several other British emigrés with an interest in mysticism. Besides his father's distinguished Huxley connections (he was the son of the biologist T. H. Huxley), Aldous Huxley was related through his mother to the Arnolds of Rugby. His brother was the biologist Julian Huxley . He first attended a school his mother had established and then from a preparatory school won a scholarship to Eton (1908). However, a serious eye infection left him nearly ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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