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Two of a kind?(Leslie Fiedler and Aldous Huxley)
From: Modern Age
Date: 20050322
Author:Birnbaum, Milton
"Too Good To Be True": The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler, by Mark Royden Winchell, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. 368 pp.
Aldous Huxley: A Biography, by Nicholas Murray, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. 496 pp.
LOOKING AT THE DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS of Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), one is tempted to conclude that these two men of letters have very little in common. Such a conclusion, however, would be, at best, only half true. Despite sharp differences in background, style of writing, and Huxley's greater inclusiveness of ...
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