From the NY Times:
Laura Archera Huxley, a writer who was best known for her memoir of her years with her husband, the novelist Aldous Huxley, died on Thursday at her home in Los Angeles…Laura Archera was born in Turin, Italy, on Nov. 2, 1911. A musical prodigy, she made her United States debut in 1937, performing Mozart’s A major violin concerto in Carnegie Hall with the New York Women’s Symphony Orchestra. Miss Archera later studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. At the outbreak of World War II in Europe, she chose to remain in the United States, eventually settling in Los Angeles.
