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In the course of his lifetime, Waugh made enemies and offended many people; writer James Lees-Milne said that Waugh "was the nastiest-tempered man in England". [185] Waugh's son, Auberon , said that the force of his father's personality was such that, despite his lack of height, "generals and chancellors of the exchequer, six-foot-six and ...
Evelyn Waugh, circa 1940 Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) was an English 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.
Arthur Waugh (1866–1943, England, nf/p) Auberon Waugh (1931–2001, England, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Hertford College, Oxford, where Evelyn Waugh conceived the idea of The Temple at Thatch in 1924. Evelyn Waugh's literary pedigree was strong. His father, the publisher Arthur Waugh (1866–1943), was a respected literary critic for The Daily Telegraph; [2] his elder brother Alec (1899–1981) was a successful novelist whose first book The Loom of Youth became a controversial best seller in ...
It is widely believed that Waugh based his protagonist, William Boot, on Deedes, a junior reporter who arrived in Addis Ababa aged 22, with "a quarter of a ton of baggage". [4] In his memoir At War with Waugh, Deedes wrote that: "Waugh like most good novelists drew on more than one person for each of his characters. He drew on me for my ...
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Evelyn Waugh, born in 1903, was the younger son of Arthur Waugh, a writer and literary figure who was the managing director of the London publishing firm of Chapman & Hall. After attending Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford , Waugh taught for three years in a series of private preparatory schools before beginning his career as a ...
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957.It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author called his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by bromide intoxication that he experienced in the early months of 1954, recounted through his protagonist Gilbert Pinfold.