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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.
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 ...
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion, Brideshead Castle.
Pages in category "Novels by Evelyn Waugh" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Black Mischief;
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 ...
In 1900, Waugh wrote and published Robert Browning, a brief biography of the author of the same name. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He was also a regular correspondent for the magazine The New York Critic , and from 1906 to 1931, he was a literary critic for the London newspaper The Daily Telegraph .