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Aldous Huxley

1894 - 1963

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Aldous Leonard Huxley ( AWL-dəs; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aldous Huxley is the 203rd most popular writer (down from 183rd in 2019), the 178th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 131st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Writer.

Aldous Huxley is most famous for his dystopian novel, "Brave New World."

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Among writers, Aldous Huxley ranks 203 out of 7,302. Before him are Menander, François-René de Chateaubriand, Orhan Pamuk, Friedrich Hölderlin, Joseph Conrad, and Geoffrey Chaucer. After him are Imre Kertész, Luís de Camões, David Woodard, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Svetlana Alexievich, and Terry Pratchett.

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Among people born in 1894, Aldous Huxley ranks 5. Before him are Edward VIII, Nikita Khrushchev, Rudolf Hess, and Gavrilo Princip. After him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Georges Lemaître, Boris III of Bulgaria, Jean Renoir, Maximilian Kolbe, and John Ford. Among people deceased in 1963, Aldous Huxley ranks 7. Before him are Pope John XXIII, Édith Piaf, John F. Kennedy, Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau, and Georges Braque. After him are Robert Schuman, W. E. B. Du Bois, Tristan Tzara, Lee Harvey Oswald, C. S. Lewis, and Ngo Dinh Diem.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Aldous Huxley ranks 178 out of 8,785. Before him are Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758), Jeremy Bentham (1748), Mark Knopfler (1949), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), and Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596). After him are Robert Brown (1773), Mary Boleyn (1499), Henry Purcell (1659), Betty Williams (1943), Elton John (1947), and Robert Clive (1725).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Aldous Huxley ranks 22. Before him are Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), Charlotte Brontë (1816), and Geoffrey Chaucer (1343). After him are Terry Pratchett (1948), William Blake (1757), W. H. Auden (1907), C. S. Lewis (1898), J. K. Rowling (1965), and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759).

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