Was Ma Hump to blame?

John Sutherland

  • Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray
    Little, Brown, 496 pp, £20.00, April 2002, ISBN 0 316 85492 1
  • The Cat's Meow directed by Peter Bogdanovich
    April 2002

Twentieth-century Huxleys have received less biography than one might have expected. Nicholas Murray usefully fills a gap between Sybille Bedford’s thirty-year-old life of Aldous and the awaited definitive biography by David Bradshaw. With the passing of time, Murray can tell us things prohibited to his predecessor by discretion and the libel laws. At the same time, like Murray’s other biographies, this one holds the central ground of its subject very ably and maintains a respectful but clear-sighted perspective. No blackwash, no hagiography, no wild critical assessments.

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