Literature Pair-Work Youcef and Youssef

By YP777
  • Time and place of birth

    Time and place of birth

    Aldous Leonard Huxley was an British writer and philosopher who was born 26 of July 1894 in Godalming, England.
  • Important event

    Important event

    At the age of 16, he suffered a violent attack of punctate keratitis, a serious eye disease that produced opacity in the corneas and kept him practically blind for 18 months.
  • Important event

    Important event

    At the age of twenty-two, Aldous published his first book, The Burning Wheel (1916), a collection of poems.
  • Important action

    Important action

    In 1919 he married with Marie, a Belgian refugee in England during the First World War. After the wedding, the couple settled in the Hampstead neighborhood of London. A year later, in 1920, was born, their only son, Matthew.
  • Important event

    Important event

    In 1932 Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World which was the most important book of his career and the one that made him famous.
  • Year and cause of death

    Year and cause of death

    On November 22, 1963, Aldous Huxley died in Los Angeles of laryngeal cancer.