Aldous Huxley was a British writer. He was born on 26 July 1894 and died on 22 November 1963. He was best known for his fifth novel, Brave New World, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Huxley was born in Godalming in the county of Surrey, southern England. . Huxley was the son of an English teacher, Julia Arnold, and a writer, Leonard. Huxley intended to become a doctor. But having contracted keratitis, an eye disease that almost leads to blindness, he was forced to change profession. He learned to read Braille; after two years he had improved enough to be able to read with a magnifying glass (). He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, studied English literature and philology, and graduated in 1915. Aldous Huxley wrote 47 books, but one of his most famous novels, and some critics argue the most important, would be Brave New World. . Huxley wrote it in just four months. Aldous Huxley won numerous awards; he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction at the University of Edinburgh in 1939, for his novel After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. In 1959, he received the Award of Merit and the Gold Medal from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and also accepted an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of California. He died on November 22, 1963, the same day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The year before his death, he received the Companion of Literature from Britain's Royal Society of Literature ( ). Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World implies a futuristic perception of the world and shows how technology has taken over the world and humans are now managed by science. In the novel Brave New World, society is intensely interested in... the center of the paper... the world. In Greek terms, utopia means “no place,” which is ironic in Huxley's novel (“utopia”). It is not a “good place” and therefore is not, in Greek terms, a utopia. Huxley himself called his world a "negative utopia", the opposite of the traditional utopia. Readers have also used the word "dystopia," meaning "bad place," to describe Huxley's fictional world and others like it. In conclusion, Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's warning to us. It is his attempt to make man understand that since knowledge is control, he who controls and uses knowledge has the power. Science and technology should not be masters, but should be servants of man. The novel states that humans should not adapt and be imprisoned to government, science, and technology. Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World is an alternative portrait of what our lives might be like in the distant future.