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Evelyn received his first school lessons at home, from his mother, with whom he formed a particularly close relationship; his father, Arthur Waugh, was a more distant figure, whose close bond with his elder son, Alec, was such that Evelyn often felt excluded.
May 23, 2024 · Evelyn Waugh (born October 28, 1903, London, England—died April 10, 1966, Combe Florey, near Taunton, Somerset) 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.
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.
Fiction, Biography, Memoir. edit data. 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 · In his entertaining and meticulously researched book, Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Eade, as he writes in the introduction, “seeks to re-examine and rebalance some of the distortions and misconceptions that have come to surround this famously complex and much mythologised character.”
Evelyn Waugh has 245 books on Goodreads with 599092 ratings. Evelyn Waugh’s most popular book is Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of...
He died, prematurely aged, of a massive coronary thrombosis on Easter Sunday 1966. 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.
Discover more about the complete works of Evelyn Waugh project at the University of Leicester with Oxford University Press and the Waugh family. Learn about the project.
Evelyn Waugh (October 1903 – April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books. His most famous books include the satire Decline and Fall and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour. We interviewed biographer Selina Hastings to find out more about Waugh and the Bright Young Things.
