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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley was born at the end of the 18th century into a famous family of intellectual elites whose members probably had a great effect on his work. Early on Aldous was recognized as being different—“superior,” his brother said—and respected for that difference.
Despite the advantages of his family's notoriety, Huxley’s early life was beset by two major tragedies. His mother died of cancer when he was 14 and at 16 while a student at Eton he lost much of his sight from an eye disease. That loss however did not hinder his descriptive vision as he added to novelist a Hollywood career as a screenwriter.
The now traditional foreword to Brave New World he wrote 16 years after the novel and nine years later penned Brave New World Revisited as hammering warnings to civilization that governments could easily use the already, prematurely created techniques of Brave New World on their citizens.
Aldous Huxley died November 22, 1963, the same day as John F. Kennedy.