After Many a Summer

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) was an English writer and philosopher best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World (1932), along with other notable works such as Point Counter Point (1928), The Doors of Perception (1954), and Island (1962). He received awards including the 1939 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for After Many a Summer Dies the Swan and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962, and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times.