Volume 37, Number 9 · May 31, 1990
Making Hay with Huxley
By Robert Craft
Huxley in Hollywood
by David King Dunaway
Harper and Row/A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, 458 pp., $24.95
David Dunaway begins with a tabloid tale. Maria, Aldous Huxley's first wife, was a lesbian who invited 'women Aldous might like' to tea, 'then booked the restaurant and, in some cases, the motel.' No instances are cited. He tells us, further, that when an attractive female was introduced, Maria regarded her with as much predatory interest as did Aldous; but no evidence of an adulterous liaison by either of them is forthcoming. 'Maria had arranged a sexy encounter' for her husband, Dunaway goes on, and, true to the author's hit-and-run manner, he provides neither any specifics about it nor even any indication that it in fact took place.
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