Jacob's hands an original screen story
Main Author: | Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. |
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Other Authors: | Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986. |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1998.
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Physical Description: |
p. cm. |
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ISBN: |
0312194676 |
Author Notes: |
While at Oxford, he published two volumes of poetry. Crome Yellow, his first novel, was published in 1927 followed by Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. His most famous novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, is a science fiction classic about a futuristic society controlled by technology. In all, Huxley produced 47 works during his long career, In 1947, Huxley moved with his family to southern California. During the 1950s, he experimented with mescaline and LSD. Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, both works of nonfiction, were based on his experiences while taking mescaline under supervision. In 1959, Aldous Huxley received the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on November 22, 1963. (Bowker Author Biography) |