| Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, the third son of Leonard Huxley (the biographer and editor of the Cornhill Magazine) and grandson of Thomas Aldous Huxley. His mother, who died when Aldous was fourteen, was the niece of Matthew Arnold; his brother was Sir Julian Huxley. | |
| In 1916 Aldous Huxley took a first in English at Balliol College, Oxford, despite a condition of near-blindness which had developed while he was at Eton. During 1919 he married Maria Nys, a Belgian, and in the same year he joined The Athenaeum under Midleton Murry, Katherine Masfield's husband. His first book of verse had been published in 1916 and two more followed. Then, in 1920, Limbo, a collection of short stories was published. A year later Crome Yellow, Huxley's first novel appeared and his reputation was firmly established. From the first, the public recognized that the strength of Huxley´s writing lay in his combination of dazzling dialogue and surface cynicism (often very funny indeed) with a foundation of great conviction in the emancipating influences he was to exert. |
Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, the third son of Leonard Huxley (the biographer and editor of the Cornhill Magazine) and grandson of Thomas Aldous Huxley. His mother, who died when Aldous was fourteen, was the niece of Matthew Arnold; his brother was Sir Julian Huxley.
In 1916 Aldous Huxley took a first in English at Balliol College, Oxford, despite a condition of near-blindness which had developed while he was at Eton. During 1919 he married Maria Nys, a Belgian, and in the same year he joined The Athenaeum under Midleton Murry, Katherine Masfield's husband. His first book of verse had been published in 1916 and two more followed. Then, in 1920, Limbo, a collection of short stories was published. A year later Crome Yellow, Huxley's first novel appeared and his reputation was firmly established. From the first, the public recognized that the strength of Huxley´s writing lay in his combination of dazzling dialogue and surface cynicism (often very funny indeed) with a foundation of great conviction in the emancipating influences he was to exert.