Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963), NovelistSitter in 114 portraits
Huxley was arguably Britain's best-known novelist of the inter-war years. His reputation followed the success of Brave New World (1932), which, set 500 years in the future, conjured a nightmare vision of an overpopulated society that has resorted to biological engineering. It followed a string of satirical works: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923) and Those Barren Leaves (1925). Huxley later moved to the USA, where, partly due to interest in Hindu Vedantist ideas, his writing turned to pacifism, metaphysics and the potential of human capability. This plays out in Ends and Means (1937) and the autobiographical The Doors of Perception (1953), written under the influence of the hallucinogenic drug mescaline.
after Howard Coster
colour offset lithographic cigarette card, 1937
NPG D42402
by and copied by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 18 May 1976 (29 September 1931)
NPG x173598
Juliette (née Baillot), Lady Huxley; Aldous Huxley; Sir Julian Huxley
by Unknown photographer
bromide print
NPG x20682
Related People
- Marian Collier (née Huxley) (aunt)
- Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (brother)
- Anthony Julian Huxley (nephew)
- Francis Huxley (nephew)
- Sir Julian Huxley (brother)
- Leonard Huxley (father)
- Maria Huxley (née Nys) (wife)
- Matthew Huxley (son)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (grandfather)
- Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) (aunt)
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