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Aldous Huxley (23/25)


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Subjects: Authors, Biographies, History, Literature

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 52 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 1996
Available in French: No

Huxley spent most of the 1920's (and the first half of the 1930's) living in Italy where he befriended the novelist D.H. Lawrence. They spent time travelling in both Italy and France before Huxley decided to move to California in 1937, believing that the sunshine would be better for his eyesight and also to benefit from a social climate far removed from increasing Nazi hysteria in Europe. It was a massive turning point in his life. An older Huxley abandoned novel writing as a vehicle for expressing his ideas, instead focusing on non-fiction. He published influential studies of consciousness expansion through the drug mescaline (including The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell ) and became a guru among Californian 'hippies'. He also started to use LSD and showed an interest in Hindu philosophy. Huxley died in Los Angeles on November 22, 1963. In the media, news of his death was overshadowed by the assassination of President Kennedy.

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