Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) was a highly influential English writer and philosopher. He authored almost 50 books in his life time, including Brave New World, Island and the Doors of Perception, before his death in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, from laryngeal cancer at the age of 69. His death (as well as the death of the British writer C.S. Lewis) occurred on the same day as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy of the United States in Dallas, Texas, and was thus completely overshadowed.