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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ ˈ iː v l ɪ n ˈ s ɪ n dʒ ən ˈ w ɔː /; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the ...
Jul 3, 2024 · Evelyn Waugh was an English writer regarded by many as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day. Waugh was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Hertford College, Oxford. After short periods as an art student and schoolmaster, he devoted himself to solitary observant travel and to the
Evelyn Waugh has 247 books on Goodreads with 602459 ratings. Evelyn Waugh’s most popular book is Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of...
Evelyn Waugh, circa 1940. Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was a British writer, journalist and reviewer, generally considered one of the leading English prose writers of the 20th century. The following lists his fiction, travel and biographical works, together with selected articles and reviews.
Evelyn Waugh died after Mass on Easter Sunday, 1966, and left a world impoverished of one of its great stylists, humorists, provocateurs and characters. Though his faith and politics and temperament remain as out of step with the norms of literary culture today as they were at the time of his death, he is perennially in print and likely to survive as one of the giants of 20th-century English literature and one of the greatest English stylists of any age. ...
Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College.
May 26, 2017 · Eade’s responses to other Waugh chroniclers make Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited juicy reading for Waugh devotees, although those new to the subject may find these passages less compelling. With access to first wife Evelyn Gardner’s unpublished memoir, Eade is able to give a more detailed portrait of the aristocratic “Shevlyn” (as she was nicknamed), and to a point, a more sympathetic one. However, the biographer rebuts Gardner’s assertion that her ex-husband was “bad in bed ...
The Evelyn Waugh Society is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote, for the public benefit, interest and research into the life and works of the English author Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966). The Society has members around the world, including authors, eminent academics, students, and researchers, but the majority of our members are non-specialists who simply enjoy Waugh’s books and are interested in learning more about the man and his works.
Read the biography of Evelyn Waugh, one of the twentieth century's most diverse and prolific writers. Find out more about the life of Evelyn Waugh and the complete works project at the University of Leicester.
Professor Martin Stannard's introduction to the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Described by the Times Literary Supplement as being destined to "become one of the great monuments of twenty-first century literary scholarship", the Complete Works project is working with Oxford University Press to print all of Waugh's extant writings and graphic art: novels, biographies, travel writing, short fiction, essays, articles, reportage, reviews, letters (about 85% of which are currently unpublished ...
