The Life of Aldhis Huxley

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Bob is a literary biographer and poet. His grandfather was thomas henry huxley, who had a nickname in his day as darwin's bulldog. He went to the famous english public school eton. Bob notes that this experience took place years prior to the medium duced drug panic of the late 19 sixties. But he writes, a change in my mind was slowly and subtly beginning to happen.

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool, he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, five collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997, and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.

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