For the first time in twenty-five years, Nicholas Murray provides new insights into the life of this colorful writer. A fashionable figure of the 1920s, Aldous Huxley produced several witty and daring novels. However, it is his celebrated portrayal of a nightmare future society in Brave New World for which Huxley is re-mem-bered today. A truly visionary book, it was a watershed in Huxley's worldview-coinciding with his move to Cali-for-nia and experimentation with mysticism and psyche-delic drugs in later life. Aldous Huxley possesses the greatest virtue of literary bio-gra-phies: It will make readers want to read its subject's work all over again.