Over the course of his copious career, Aldous Huxley has written poetry, drama, essays, and about history, amounting in over 50 books. He is best known for Brave New World, a chilling dystopian novel similar to Orwell’s 1984. After writing the book, he moved to the United States and turned his attention more to history and mysticism. He experimented with psychedelic drugs and had an ambiguous belief that spiritual truth can be attained through intuitive experience, such as sight. Huxley developed a disease that left him nearly blind when he was only 17 years old, but that did not stop him from becoming a serious novelist and a prodigious writer. He is descended from two of the most prominent Victorian families and graduated from Oxford University
