Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual, Nicholas Murray's 2002 biography from Little, Brown, published in the United States as Aldous Huxley: A Biography by St. Martin's Press in 2003, drew on letters unavailable to two earlier biographies and covers the May 1953 mescaline session in Los Angeles under the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond's supervision, the 1954 publication of The Doors of Perception, and Huxley's request for LSD on his deathbed in November 1963. Its strength is that it drew on newly available letters unavailable to the two biographies that preceded it. Its limit is that a single biography's interpretive choices about a life are one author's synthesis, open to be weighed against Huxley's own letters and other biographies.
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Nicholas Murray's Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual, Little, Brown, 2002, the top tier reflecting new access to letters unavailable to the two biographies that preceded it. Its limit is the ordinary one for any single biography: its interpretive choices about a life are one author's synthesis, open to be weighed against Huxley's own letters and other biographies. NotesDrawing on letters unavailable to two earlier biographies. Covers the May 1953 mescaline session in Los Angeles under the psychiatrist Humphry Osmond's supervision and the 1954 publication of The Doors of Perception, and Huxley's request for LSD on his deathbed in November 1963.
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AuthorNicholas Murray
PublisherLittle, Brown (published in the United States as "Aldous Huxley: A Biography," St. Martin's Press, 2003)
Publication Year2002
Source Typebiography
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