Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale

Aldous Leonard Huxley
born in Goldalming, Surrey, England on July 26, 1894
author and magazine editor
brothers and father and grandfather were all involved with sciences but during his writing career, Huxley liked to focus his novels on the bad side of science and technologies
Eric Blair was one of his pupils while he was teaching literature but he was considered a "hopeless teacher" with no structure to his classes
he is best known for his novel Brave New World which was written in 1931 and was published a year later
died in 1963 of laryngeal cancer and right before his death, he wasn’t able to speak, he wrote down on a piece of paper to give him 100 µg of LSD which his wife didMargaret Eleanor Atwood
born in Ottawa on November 18^th, 1939
poet, novelist and environmental activist
did not attend school full-time until the 8^th grade
while the majority of her novels have prominent female protagonists and feminist ideals, she denies that these books can be labeled "feminist"
she is currently living in Toronto at the age of 72by Margaret Atwood