Aldous Huxley

1894–1963 · English novelist and essayist

Aldous Huxley did use this joke — which makes him a more defensible candidate than most, and a more misleading one. He used the Homer version, in a novel published in 1925, sixty-five years after the Shakespeare form was already in print. Repeating a joke and inventing one are different acts, and quotation sites almost never mark the difference.

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“The Plays of Shakespeare Were Not Written by Shakespeare but by Another Man of the Same Name”

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Not actually Aldous Huxley

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Famous lines widely pinned on Aldous Huxley that we’ve traced to someone else.

“The Plays of Shakespeare Were Not Written by Shakespeare but by Another Man of the Same Name”

actually Unknown

“There Are Things Known, and Things Unknown, and In Between Are the Doors”

actually Ray Manzarek

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