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ST 5751 Aldous Huxley. British writer/poet/novelist Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite.Huxley's emphasis on ideas and his skin as an essayist cannot hide one important fact: The books he wrote that are most read and best remembered today are all novels: 'Crome Yellow', 'Antic Hay', and 'Point Counter Point from the 1920s,'Brave New World' and 'After Many a Summer Dies the Swan' from the 1930s. In 1959 the American Academy of Arts and Letters gave him the Award of Merit. Huxley produced 47 books in his long career as a writer. Huxley published his first book, a collection of poems, in 1916. He married Maria Nys, a Belgian, in 1919. Their only child, Matthew Huxley, was born in 1920. The family divided their time between London and Europe, mostly Italy, in the 1920s, and traveled around the world in 1925 and 1926, seeing India and making a first visit to the United States. He died in November 22, 1963. (KEYSTONE/CAMERA PRESS/Cecil Beaton)