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Laura Archera Huxley Dies

Therapist and author Laura Archera Huxley died 13 December 2007 of cancer. Born in Turin, Italy, in 1911, she was first a concert violinist, but may be best remembered for being Aldous Huxley's widow. She came to the US in the 1940s to debut at Carnegie Hall, and then played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for several years. She met Huxley in 1948, 16 years after his Brave New World made him famous. They married in 1956, a year after the death of his first wife, and for the next seven years (until Read more [...]