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18 de jan. de 2001 · Thu 18 Jan 2001 05.51 EST. Auberon Waugh's death at the age of 61 is more sad than surprising. His immediate heredity wasn't promising - his father died at 62, his mother at 57 - and he suffered ...
Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), English journalist and novelist, and great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon; Fictional characters. Auberon (comics), the King of Faerie in the DC comic series The Sandman and The Books of Magic "Auberon", a short story in The Expanse series
Auberon was a fairly conventional rebel, with a schoolboy urge to shock and a neglected child’s craving for attention. I found his writings suitable only for an undergraduate mag or college ‘smoker’, and his opinions often merely absurd. Waugh senior was an indifferent parent.
Alec Waugh. Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic and publisher. His first wife was Barbara Jacobs (daughter of the writer William Wymark Jacobs ), his second wife was Joan ...
In 1972, Scoop was made into a BBC serial: it was adapted by Barry Took, and starred Harry Worth as William Boot and James Beck as Corker. In 1987, William Boyd adapted the novel into a two-hour TV film, Scoop. Directed by Gavin Millar, it starred Michael Maloney as William Boot and Denholm Elliott as Salter.
John Richard Pilger ( / ˈpɪldʒər /; 9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker. [1] From 1962, he was based mainly in Britain. [2] [3] [4] He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York. [5]
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, [1] PC, FRSL (26 November 1939 – 24 September 2021), usually known as Grey Gowrie or Lord Gowrie, was an Irish-born British hereditary peer, politician, and businessman. Lord Gowrie was also the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Ruthven in Scotland. He was educated at Eton and Oxford ...
