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-'''Aldous Leonard Huxley''' ([[July 26]], [[1894]] – [[November 22]], [[1963]]) was an [[England|English]] [[writer]] and one of the most prominent members of the famous [[Huxley family]]. He spent the latter part of his life in the [[United States]], living in [[Los Angeles]] from [[1937]] until his death in [[1963]]. Best known for his [[novel]]s and wide-ranging output of [[essay]]s, he also published [[short stories]], [[poetry]], [[travel writing]], and [[film]] stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a [[humanist]] but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as [[parapsychology]] and [[philosophy|philosophical]] [[mysticism]]. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank.+'''Aldous Leonard Huxley''' ([[July 26]], [[1894]] – [[November 22]], [[1963]]) was an [[English writer]] and one of the most prominent members of the famous [[Huxley family]]. He spent the latter part of his life in the [[United States]], living in [[Los Angeles]] from [[1937]] until his death in [[1963]]. Best known for his [[novel]]s and wide-ranging output of [[essay]]s, he also published [[short stories]], [[poetry]], [[travel writing]], and [[film]] stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a [[humanist]] but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as [[parapsychology]] and [[philosophy|philosophical]] [[mysticism]]. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank.
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Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank.

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Novels
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Poetry
Travel writing
Drama
Essay collections
Articles written for Vedanta and the West (A publication of the Vedanta Society of Southern California from 1938 to 1970)
  • Distractions (1941)
  • Distractions II (1941)
  • Action and Contemplation (1941)
  • An Appreciation (1941)
  • The Yellow Mustard (1941)
  • Lines (1941)
  • Some Replections of the Lord's Prayer (1941)
  • Reflections of the Lord's Prayer (1942)
  • Reflections of the Lord's Prayer II (1942)
  • Words and Reality (1942)
  • Readings in Mysticism (1942)
  • Man and Reality (1942)
  • The Magical and the Spiritual (1942)
  • Religion and Time (1943)
  • Idolatry (1943)
  • Religion and Temperament (1943)
  • A Note on the Bhagavatam (1943)
  • Seven Meditations (1943)
  • On a Sentence From Shakespeare (1944)
  • The Minimum Working Hypothesis (1944)
  • From a Notebook (1944)
  • The Philosophy of the Saints (1944)
  • That Art Thou (1945)
  • That Art Thou II (1945)
  • The Nature of the Ground (1945)
  • The Nature of the Ground II (1945)
  • God In the World (1945)
  • Origins and Consequences of Some Contemporary Thought-Patterns (1946)
  • The Sixth Patriarch (1946)
  • Some Reflections on Time (1946)
  • Reflections on Progress (1947)
  • Further Reflections on Progress (1947)
  • William Law (1947)
  • Notes on Zen (1947)
  • Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (1948)
  • A Note on Gandhi (1948)
  • Art and Religion (1949)
  • Foreword to an Essay on the Indian Philosophy of Peace (1950)
  • A Note on Enlightenment (1952)
  • Substitutes for Liberation (1952)
  • The Desert (1954)
  • A Note on Patanjali (1954)
  • Who Are We? (1955)
  • Foreword to the Supreme Doctrine (1956)
  • Knowledge and Understanding (1956)
  • The "Inanimate" is Alive (1957)
  • Symbol and Immediate Experience (1960)
Philosophy
Biography and nonfiction
Children's literature
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