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Article: Two of a kind?(Leslie Fiedler and Aldous Huxley)
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- Modern Age
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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"Too Good To Be True": The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler, by Mark Royden Winchell, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. 368 pp.
Aldous Huxley: A Biography, by Nicholas Murray, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. 496 pp.
LOOKING AT THE DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS of Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), one is tempted to conclude that these two men of letters have very little in common. Such a conclusion, however, would be, at best, only half true. Despite sharp differences in background, style of writing, and Huxley's greater inclusiveness of subject matter and literary genres, both Fiedler and Huxley tried to grapple with life's ...