Born: 26 July 1894 · Died: 22 November 1963 · Age at death: 69
How old was Aldous Huxley when he died?
Aldous Huxley died aged 69. He was born on 26 July 1894 and died on 22 November 1963.
English writer of Brave New World, a dystopia of engineered happiness, and The Doors of Perception
Did you know?He died on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and author C.S. Lewis passed away.
Quick facts
Date of birth26 July 1894
Date of death22 November 1963
Age at death69
Cause of deathLaryngeal cancer
NationalityBritish
BirthplaceGodalming, United Kingdom
Occupationpoet, novelist, philosopher
Editor's Take:
Aldous Huxley was a writer of ideas who looked into the future. He came from a famous family of scientists. An eye illness in his youth left him nearly blind. Brave New World imagines a society kept happy by drugs and conditioning. It is one of the great dystopian novels. Later he moved to California. The Doors of Perception describes his experiments with mescaline.
Key Milestones
1921: Crome Yellow – first novel
1932: Brave New World – dystopia
1937: California – moves to the US
1954: The Doors of Perception – essay
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.
