1894-1963. English writer. The satirical
disillusionment of his first novel, Crome
Yellow 1921, continued throughout Antic Hay
1923, Those Barren Leaves 1925, Point Counter
Point 1928, and Brave New World 1932, in
which human beings are mass produced in the
laboratory under the control of the
omnipotent `Big Brother'. He was the grandson
of Thomas Henry Huxley and brother of Julian
Huxley. Huxley's later devotion to mysticism
led to his experiments with the
hallucinogenic drug mescalin, recorded in The
Doors of Perception 1954. He also wrote the
novel Eyeless in Gaza 1936, and two
historical studies, Grey Eminence 1941 and
The Devils of Loudun 1952.