Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was a English author and literary critic; he is best known for his novel Brave New World (1932). Besides novels he writed: histories, poems (Leda, 1920), plays, travel books and essays on: arts, religion, morals, philosophy and general sociology.
Late in his life he began experimenting with LSD, became a guru for hippies in California and studied Hinduism
From 1937 until his death in 1963, Huxley lived in Los Angeles. In 1959, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit.