Aldous Huxley research

• came from a family of scientists
• novelist and essayist but he would also write some short stories, poetry, travelogues and film scripts
• expressed concern in his writings with potentially harmful applications of scientific progress to mankind.
• become ill in 1911 with a disease that would leave him basically blind 
• his other brother, Noel, would kill himself for loosing his mom and his brother becoming ill
• he would not be able to do the scientific research that had attracted him earlier since he's kinda blind
• finish his first novel at seventeen but never publish it
• turn to writing at the age of twenty
• deeply concerned about the important changes occurring during his time in Western civilization
• prompt him to write great novels about serious threats by the combination of power and technical progress, a drift in parapsychology, and behaviorism 
• wrote against war and nationalism 
• foresight to write about a dictatorial future before it had happened
• interested in parapsychology and mysticism, which he would also write a lot about
• experimented with psychedelic drugs which he would write a collection of essays about