His most famous novel, Brave New World, published in 1932, is a science fiction classic about a futuristic society controlled by technology. Crome Yellow, his first novel, was published in 1927 followed by Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. While at Oxford, he published two volumes of poetry. Following an eye illness at age 16 that resulted in near-blindness, Huxley abandoned hope of a career in medicine and turned instead to literature, attending Oxford University and graduating with honors. Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Surrey, England, into a distinguished scientific and literary family his grandfather was the noted scientist and writer, T.H.
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