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Laura Archera Huxley, 96; Self-help Author

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20071215
Author:Adam Bernstein - Washington Post Staff Writer

Laura Archera Huxley, 96, the widow of writer Aldous Huxley who became a self-help author and founder of a humanitarian organization to transform the emotional lives of toddlers, teens and senior citizens, died Dec. 13 at her home in Hollywood Hills, Calif. She had cancer.

Mrs. Huxley, a violin prodigy in her native Italy, once performed at Carnegie Hall before giving up music to study health and nutrition. In the Los Angeles area, she became a lay therapist and lectured on the "human potential" movement, a precursor of New Age beliefs.

In 1956, she married Aldous Huxley, an English-born ...

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