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Eva Herrmann was born the third of five children to Frank S. Herrmann (1866–1942), an American painter with German-Jewish origins who had studied at the Munich Art Academy at the end of the 19th century, and Anna (née Schlesinger, 1875–1944), a Romanian Jew who was later murdered at Auschwitz.
In 1956, Archera married Huxley. She wrote several self-help books concerning human relations, including You Are Not the Target (1963) with a foreword written by Aldous Huxley. After his death in 1963, she wrote This Timeless Moment: a personal view of Aldous Huxley (1968), a book describing life with her husband.
Kohda contributed a short story to the 2023 collection Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed [13] and illustrations to her partner Tom Lathan's 2024 book Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century. [14] She joined the judges' panel of the 2025 Women's Prize Discoveries programme. [15]
Aldous Huxley full interview 1958: The Problems of Survival and Freedom in America; Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery "Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light", a film essay by Oliver Hockenhull; Aldous Huxley at IMDb; BBC discussion programme In our time: "Brave New World". Huxley and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 minutes)
Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930) was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition.
Mara McAfee (November 27, 1929 – January 13, 1984) was an American Pop artist and illustrator best known for her satirical depictions of historical figures, contemporary subjects, and high art traditions.
Gertrude Mary Woodward (1854–1939) was a British scientific illustrator.The daughter of geologist Henry Bolingbroke Woodward and sister of illustrator Alice Woodward, she illustrated many palaeontological works for the Natural History Museum, London and was esteemed by her peers for the accuracy and quality of her watercolour work.
The story takes place in London, and gives a satiric depiction [1] of the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I. A 1923 review opined that Antic Hay was "probably the most brilliant novel of the year" and summarized Huxley's theme as "contemporary civilization is damnable, and ...