Thereafter he devoted himself largely to his own writing and spent much of his time in Italy until the late 1930s, when he settled in California.Ĥ9 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Literature Quizzes He published his first book in 1916 and worked on the periodical Athenaeum from 1919 to 1921. He retained enough eyesight to read with difficulty, and he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1916. He was educated at Eton, during which time he became partially blind because of keratitis. He remains best known for one novel, Brave New World (1932), a model for much dystopian science fiction that followed.Īldous Huxley was a grandson of the prominent biologist Thomas Henry Huxley and was the third child of the biographer and man of letters Leonard Huxley his brothers included physiologist Andrew Fielding Huxley and biologist Julian Huxley.
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