Aldous Huxley

British novelist and philosopher — author of Brave New World, Point Counter Point, and The Doors of Perception — who created the pleasure-engineering dystopia and wrote the most influential account of a psychedelic experience.

Creates two distinct bodies of work — Brave New World (the pleasure-dystopia, foundational alongside 1984) and The Doors of Perception (the most influential account of psychedelic experience, which named Jim Morrison's band and launched the 1960s psychedelic culture).