Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, England on July 26, 1894. His family came from a long line of intellectuals. His early life was full of science, religion, and education. He and his siblings faced a tremendous amount of pressure to be perfect. This pressure may have been the cause of the suicide Aldous’ older brother Trevenan. After a blight of sickness in his mid-teens, he was left partially blind. Huxley is best known for Brave New Word, but he has written several other books, most of them satirical. His first novel, Crome Yellow, was published in 1921, five years after he graduated from Balliol College at Oxford University. After graduating, he also became a teacher in Eton and an editor on the Athenaeum, a London journal. He also worked on Vogue and Vanity Fair before focusing solely on his own novels. Brave New World left a permanent change in Huxley. His novels published after Brave New World took the idea of evil more seriously. Huxley moved from England to New Mexico, United States in 1937 with his wife Maria. Later he moved to California to correct his vision. He continued to write for the rest of his life. He died of cancer on November 22, 1963.