Aldous HuxleyAldous Leonard Huxley: English novelist, essayist, critic and poet. On July 26, 1894, Aldous was born to Leonard and Julia Huxley in England. The infamous Huxley family possessed both scientific and literary fame throughout Europe. As a teenager, Aldous developed a bizarre eye disease that left him blind for over two years. This traumatic event instead changed Aldous's career from doctor to writer. “…I should have infallibly killed myself in the much more strenuous profession of medicine.” But he was used to working, even in the literary world. During the 1920s he lived in Italy and France, before emigrating to the United States in 1937. Huxley's personal experiences set him apart from the class into which he was born. Growing up, he was seen as different, showing quickness and intelligence, a superiority. He was a respected and loved person. He felt that heredity made each individual unique and that the uniqueness of the individual was essential to freedom. His feelings and emotions are shown in his work, Brave New World. Like his family and the Alphas of Brave New World, Huxley felt a moral obligation to fight the idea that happiness could be achieved through class. When Huxley was 14, he suffered a traumatic loss in his life; his mother died. You can see his loss and his sense of the transience of human happiness in Brave New World. As mentioned before,...