Aldous Huxley
By the end of his life, Huxley was considered, in many academic circles, a 'leader of modern thought' and an intellectual of the highest rank.
http://www.s9.com/Biography/Huxley-Aldous-Leonard

Brave New World
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley is one of the most bewitching and insidious works of literature ever written.
http://www.huxley.net/