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Evelyn Waugh. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ( / ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː /; 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.
- Writer
- Novel, biography, short story, travelogue, autobiography, satire, humour
- 7, including Auberon Waugh
2 de abr. de 2014 · Personal Life. The failure of Waugh's short first marriage (to Evelyn Gardner, from 1928-30) led to his conversion to Roman Catholicism, which informed much of his later work, including a...
7 de abr. de 2016 · A preface to his most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), explains that when writing the book Waugh had assumed the way of life it portrayed – old established families living on in ...
- Barbara Cooke
15 de abr. de 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
About Evelyn Waugh. Born in Hampstead in 1903, Waugh was the second son of Arthur Waugh, a prominent man of letters, and younger brother to Alec Waugh, the novelist. Educated at Lancing and at Hertford College, Oxford, Waugh came down with an undistinguished third in History.
26 de mai. de 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.”
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.
