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The most substantial collection of Huxley's few remaining papers, following the destruction of most in the 1961 Bel Air Fire, is at the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles. Some are also at the Stanford University Libraries. |
On 9 April 1962 Huxley was informed he was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature, the senior literary organisation in Britain, and he accepted the title via letter on 28 April 1962. The correspondence between Huxley and the society is kept at the Cambridge University Library. The society in... |
Death |
On his deathbed, unable to speak owing to advanced laryngeal cancer, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular." According to her account of his death in This Timeless Moment, she obliged with an injection at 11:20 a.m. and a second dose an hour later; Huxley died aged 69, at 5:20 ... |
Media coverage of Huxley's death, along with that of fellow British author C. S. Lewis, was overshadowed by the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy on the same day, less than seven hours before Huxley's death. In a 2009 article for New York magazine titled "The Eclipsed Celebrity Death Club", Christophe... |
This coincidence served as the basis for Peter Kreeft's book Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley, which imagines a conversation among the three men taking place in Purgatory following their deaths. |
Huxley's memorial service took place in London in December 1963; it was led by his elder brother Julian. On 27 October 1971, his ashes were interred in the family grave at the Watts Cemetery, home of the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton, Guildford, Surrey, England. |
Huxley had been a long-time friend of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, who dedicated his last orchestral composition to Huxley. What became Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam was begun in July 1963, completed in October 1964, and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on 17 April 1965. |
Awards |
1939: James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
1959: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit . |
1962: Companion of Literature |
Film adaptations of Huxley's work |
1950: Prelude to Fame based upon Young Archimedes |
1968: Point Counter Point |
1971: The Devils |
1980: Brave New World |
1998: Brave New World |
2020: Brave New World |
Bibliography |
See also |
List of peace activists |
References |
Sources |
. Reprinted in Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, revised edition, edited by Benjamin Boretz and Edward T. Cone. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972. |
Further reading |
Anderson, Jack. 4 July 1982. "Ballet: Suzanne Farrell in Variations Premiere". The New York Times. |
Atkins, John. Aldous Huxley: A Literary Study, J. Calder, 1956 |
Barnes, Clive. 1 April 1966. "Ballet: Still Another Balanchine-Stravinsky Pearl; City Troupe Performs in Premiere Here Variations for Huxley at State Theater". The New York Times, p. 28. |
Firchow, Peter. Aldous Huxley: Satirist and Novelist, U of Minnesota P, 1972 |
Firchow, Peter. The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Bucknell UP, 1984 |
Huxley, Aldous. The Human Situation: Aldous Huxley Lectures at Santa Barbara 1959, Flamingo Modern Classic, 1994, |
Huxley, Laura Archera. This Timeless Moment, Celestial Arts, 2001, |
Meckier, Jerome. Aldous Huxley: Modern Satirical Novelist of Ideas, Firchow and Nugel editors, LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2006, |
Morgan, W. John, 'Pacifism or Bourgeois Pacifism? Huxley, Orwell, and Caudwell', Chapter 5 in Morgan, W. John and Guilherme, Alexandre (Eds.),Peace and War-Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp, 71–96. . |
Murray, Nicholas. Aldous Huxley, Macmillan, 2003, |
Poller, Jake. Aldous Huxley, Reaktion Critical Lives, 2021. . |
Poller, Jake. Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality, Brill, 2019. . |
Rolo, Charles J. (ed.). The World of Aldous Huxley, Grosset Universal Library, 1947. |
Shaw, Jeffrey M. Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. 2014. . |
Shadurski, Maxim. The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. (Chapter 5) |
Watt, Conrad (ed.). Aldous Huxley, Routledge, 1997, |
External links |
Aldous Huxley full interview 1958: The Problems of Survival and Freedom in America |
Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery |
Raymond Fraser, George Wickes (Spring 1960). "Interview: Aldous Huxley: The Art of Fiction No. 24". The Paris Review. |
BBC discussion programme In our time: "Brave New World". Huxley and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 minutes) |
BBC In their own words series. 12 October 1958 (video, 12 mins) |
"The Ultimate Revolution" (talk at UC Berkeley, 20 March 1962) |
Huxley interviewed on The Mike Wallace Interview 18 May 1958 (video) |
Centre for Huxley Research |
Aldous Huxley Papers at University of California, Los Angeles Library Special Collections |
Online editions |
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