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Aldous Huxley July 26 1894 November 22 1963 was an English writer and philosopher He was best known for his novels Brave New World and The Doors of Perception This recording is from a speech he gave What a Piece of Work Man Is Earlier in his career Huxley edited the Oxford Poetry magazine wrote travel articles film stories and scripts He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism including universalism He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in seven different years