Author
Aldous Huxley, best known for the utopian novel
Brave New World (1932), was born today in Surrey in 1894, the great-nephew of
Matthew Arnold. He also made a few contributions to mysterydom: the short stories "A Deal in Old Masters" (The
Strand, Feb. 1923; repr.
Detective Stories from the Strand, ed. Jack Adrian, New York: Oxford UP, 1991) and "
The Gioconda Smile" (
English Review, Aug. 1921; later adapted as a play starring Basil Rathbone, adapted for TV several times; and selected as one of the
12 best detective short stories of all time). He died the same day as JFK's assassination: November 22, 1963.
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