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'''Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh''' (October 28 1903 – April 10 1966) was an [[England|English]] writer, best known for such [[Satire|satirical]] and darkly humorous novels as ''Decline and Fall'', ''Vile Bodies'', ''Scoop (novel)|Scoop'', ''A Handful of Dust'', and ''The Loved One'', as well as for more serious works, such as ''Brideshead Revisited'' and the ''Sword of Honour'' trilogy, that are influenced by his own [[Conservatism|conservative]] and [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] outlook.  Many of Waugh's novels depict the British [[aristocracy]] and high society, which he savagely satirizes but to which he was also strongly attracted.  In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished [[autobiography]]His accounts and his extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published.
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'''Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh''' (October 28 1903 – April 10 1966) was an [[England|English]] writer known his acute [[Satire|satirical]] and caustic, dark humor. Best known for his all-time classic novel,''Brideshead Revisited'', [[Edmund Wilson]] the famous literary critic said that Waugh was "the only first-rate comic genius the English have produced since [[George Bernard Shaw]]," and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine declared that he had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world."  
  
[[United States of America|American]] literary critic [[Edmund Wilson]] pronounced Waugh "the only first-rate comic genius the English have produced since [[George Bernard Shaw]]," while ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine declared that he had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world."  Waugh's works were very successful with the reading public and he was widely admired by critics as a humorist and prose stylist, but his later, more overtly religious works have attracted controversy. In unpublished notes for an essay on Waugh, [[George Orwell]] declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions."  The American conservative commentator [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] found in Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century."
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In addition to the success of his novels, Waugh traveled extensively, writing several travel books and biographies as well as several short stories. [[George Orwell]] has declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions."  The American conservative commentator [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] found in Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century."
  
 
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In 1928 Waugh's novel ''[[Decline and Fall]]'' was published. It tells of a young college student, Paul Pennyfeather, his expulsion from Oxford and his social run with the high class of London society. Eventually, the main character learns that life outside the social status world is a much happier place.   
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In 1928 Waugh's novel ''Decline and Fall'' was published. The titl from [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]]'s ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' that Gibbon had written in six volumes. Gibbon's work was characterized by irony, he outlined the bankruptcy and dissolution of [[Roman Empire|Rome]], along with the disintegration of religion. Waugh's novel was a completely modern and upbeat tale. His writing was characterized by humor, wit, and satire; it dealt with a dissolution of a different kind than that addressed by Gibbon. ''Decline and Fall'' tells of a young [[Divinity (academic discipline)|divinity]] student, Paul Pennyfeather, his accidental expulsion from Oxford because of indecency, ("I expect you’ll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir," says the College porter to Paul, "That’s what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour") Pennyfeather rises socially through his aquaintance with the high class of London society. Eventually, the main character learns that life outside the social status world is a much happier place.   
  
{{Quotation| '"Aim high"' has been my motto,' said Sir Humphrey, 'all through my life. You probably won't get what you want, but you may get something; aim low, and you get nothing at all. It's like throwing a stone at a cat. When I was a kid that used to be great sport in our yard; I daresay you were throwing cricket-balls when you were that age, but it's the same thing. If you throw straight at it, you fall short; aim above, and with luck you score. Every kid knows that. I'll tell you the story of my life.|Evelyn Waugh|Decline and Fall|}}
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{{Quotation| 'Aim high has been my motto,' said Sir Humphrey, 'all through my life. You probably won't get what you want, but you may get something; aim low, and you get nothing at all. It's like throwing a stone at a cat. When I was a kid that used to be great sport in our yard; I daresay you were throwing cricket-balls when you were that age, but it's the same thing. If you throw straight at it, you fall short; aim above, and with luck you score. Every kid knows that. I'll tell you the story of my life.|Evelyn Waugh|Decline and Fall|}}
 
   
 
   
The title is from [[Edward Gibbon|Gibbon]], but whereas Gibbon charted the bankruptcy and dissolution of [[Roman Empire|Rome]], Waugh's was a hilariously witty account of quite a different sort of dissolution, following the career of the harmless Paul Pennyfeather, a student of [[Divinity (academic discipline)|divinity]], as he is accidentally expelled from Oxford for indecency ("I expect you’ll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir," says the College porter to Paul, "That’s what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour") and enters into the worlds of schoolmastering, high society, and the [[Prostitution|white slave trade]]. Other novels about England's "Bright Young Things" followed, and all were well received by both critics and the general public.  
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In 1930 ''Vile Bodies'' followed and Waugh's literary popularity became even more solidified. Waugh described his descriptive novel of Bright Young People as "a welter of sex and snobbery." Waugh followed up his success with ''Black Mischief'' in 1932, ''A Handful of Dust'' in 1934, and ''Scoop'' in 1937.  
  
Waugh entered into a brief, unsuccessful marriage in 1928 to the Hon. Evelyn Gardner. (Their friends called them He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn.) Gardner's infidelity would provide the background for Waugh's novel ''[[A Handful of Dust]]''. The marriage ended in divorce in 1930. Waugh converted to Catholicism and, after his marriage to Evelyn Gardner was annulled by the Church, he married Laura Herbert, a Catholic, daughter of [[Aubrey Herbert]], and granddaughter of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. This marriage was successful, lasting the rest of his life, producing seven children.  His son [[Auberon Waugh]] achieved recognition as a writer and journalist.
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Throughout these years of writing, Waugh's personal life was just as busy. He was married twice, first in 1928 to Hon. Evelyn Gardner, and the irony of their names was not lost on their friends. They were lovingly called He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn, and it seemed to be a lovely romance, until Evelyn proved to be unfaithful. Her adultery actually inspired Waugh in writing ''A Handful of Dust'' (a story dealing with adultery). The marriage ended in divorce and eventual annulement in 1930. With the annulment confirmed, and Waugh's heart broken, he turned back to religion, converting to [[Catholisicm]]. He traveled extensively in Africa and South America, writing several travel books along the way, also working as a foreign correspondent. With his new religion helping him to heal, Waugh met and married a fellow Catholic, Laura Herbert. Laura was the daughter of [[Aubrey Herbert]], and granddaughter of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. This marriage proved to be lasting and beautiful. Both Waugh and Laura stayed true and faithful to each other, the were compatible and happy, they made each other laugh and they enjoyed their family. The couple had seven children together, one of whom, [[Auberon Waugh]] made a name for himself through a successful writing and journalism career.  
  
 
===The Thirties===
 
===The Thirties===
Waugh's fame continued to grow between the wars, based on his [[satires]] of contemporary [[upper class]] English society, written in prose that was seductively simple and elegant. Often, his style was inventive (a chapter, for example, would be written entirely in the form of a dialogue of telephone calls). His conversion to [[Roman Catholicism]] in 1930 was a watershed in his life and his writing. It elevated Catholic themes in his work, and aspects of his deep and sincere faith, both implicit and explicit, can be found in all of his later work.
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The 1930s was an amazing decade for Evelyn Waugh. He had a happy marriage, he welcomed children, he traveled the world, and book after successful book was being published. It was a calm decade before [[World War II]] would change his life. People, English and American alike, could not get enough of the brilliant [[satires]] he wrote about contemporary [[upper class]] English society.  Ironically, he was on his way to becoming a well known figure in aristocratic and fashionable circles of the very society he often mocked. But, these acquaintances helped him develop his acute vision that helped him depict so accuratly the aristocracy. Waugh's writing style was very appealing, reaching wide audiences, it was not challenging to read, it was simple and elegant, and yet, highly innovative and inventive. He characterized his stories with traits like writing an entire chapter in dialogue of telephone calls. The 1930s also represented a change in his writings, now longer was he writing about the irreligious, but instead, his writing found a voice in advocating Catholic themes. His writings now were not only witty and humorous, but also deepened to encompass faith and integrity.  
  
The period between the wars also saw extensive travels around the Mediterranean and Red Sea, Spitsbergen, Africa and South America. Sections of the numerous travel books which resulted are often cited as among the best writing in this genre. A compendium of Waugh's favourite travel writing has been issued under the title ''When The Going Was Good''.
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Waugh's extensive travels around the Mediterranean and Red Sea, Spitsbergen, Africa and South America opened up the world to Waugh, it introduced him to different people and cultures and definately added flavor and culture references to his writings. His excellent travel books written during this time are often seen as being among the best in this genre. A compendium of Waugh's favourite travel writing has been issued under the title ''When The Going Was Good''.
  
 
===Second World War===
 
===Second World War===

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Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (October 28 1903 – April 10 1966) was an English writer known his acute satirical and caustic, dark humor. Best known for his all-time classic novel,Brideshead Revisited, Edmund Wilson the famous literary critic said that Waugh was "the only first-rate comic genius the English have produced since George Bernard Shaw," and Time magazine declared that he had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world."

In addition to the success of his novels, Waugh traveled extensively, writing several travel books and biographies as well as several short stories. George Orwell has declared that Waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions." The American conservative commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. found in Waugh "the greatest English novelist of the century."

Early life

Evenlyn Waugh was born to Arthur and Catherine (Raban) Waugh in London on October 28, 1903. He was the youngest of two children, having an elder brother named Alec. His childhood was one of a comfort. His mother, born in India, but raised in England, adored Evelyn, doting on him, but not detrimentally so. Perhaps she was trying to compensate for his father's lack of attention to Evelyn. Arthur Waugh, a highly recognized editor, literary critic, and publisher, clearly favored his eldest son, and was not remiss in showing such favor. Arthur raised his family in an upper middle class environment in Hampstead, because of this, there was an emphasis on an elite schooling system.

Arthur Waugh attended an English public school called Sherborne, and he desired both of his sons to attend. Alec was accepted an attended Sherborne, but he was expelled permanently when it was discovered that Alec had participated in a homosexual relationship. Then to solidify Evelyn's fate at the school, Alec Waugh wrote his autobiographical account of the event, the novel, The Loom of Youth, although controversial, was published and circulated immediatly. This act prevented Evelyn from attending Sherborne.

Needless to say, Arthur was not pleased with this situation, and sent Evelyn to a less prestigious school called Lancing College. An education at Lancing was twofold, one facet focused on academics while the other facet concentrated on religion, in particular High Church Anglican values. The focus on religion influenced and educated Waugh, though he may have felt that it was all negative at first. Many of his upper-class, religious classmates teased and tormented him. He had thought that his fellow classmates would be learned and sophisticated, but instead found them amoral, violent, and careless. This is the beginning of his satirical writings, and several of his personal experiences at Lancing would later be captured in his novels. This was also the time in Waugh's life that he lost any childhood faith he had been raised with and declared himself an agnostic. After graduating from Lancing, he went on to attend Hertford College, Oxford studying modern history. This education in history prepared him, among other things, for the biographies he would later write.

Although Evelyn Waugh was a highly intelligent individual, his early educational experiences did little to motivate him in the public education realm. He often neglected his studies and pursued artwork, writing, and among all, socializing. After his unpopularity at Lancing College, he found that he was able to make several friends at Hertford. This was a new and exciting experience for Waugh, one that he may have taken to extreme. His intense participation in the social scene at Hertford threw him into the company of other aesthetes like Harold Acton and Brian Howard, in addition, he found himself in company with members of the British aristocracy and the upper classes. This new popularity was the catalyst for Waugh's growing reputation as a snob. It also inspired several of the accounts he wrote about in his novels. The vigorous social scene led Waugh to experiement with various relationships, including two known homosexual romances (whether they had a physical dimension is unclear), after this brief time, he began dating women in the late 1920s. When he was asked if he had competed in any sport for his College, Waugh famously replied "I drank for Hertford."

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Evelyn Waugh as a student, from a portrait by the British painter Henry Lamb (1883-1960), a member of Walter Sickert's Camden Town Group, and later the Bloomsbury Group.


Because of Waugh's over-extension socially, he ended failing academically. During his final exams he only qualified for a third-class degree. To raise the status of this degree would have required that Waugh stay at Hertford for another semester and retaking the exam. He refused to stay the extra time, and he left Hertford, Oxford for good in 1924. He did not qualify for his degree, and instead, he moved to Wales the following year to teach at a private school. Feeling very disheartened at the last few years of his life, Waugh tried to commit suicide (he only mentioned this in his autobiography). He went out swimming in the sea, determined to swim out until he drowned, but he turned back after a jellyfish stung him. He went on to another teaching position, but he did not have much success at this school because of his conduct towards the school matron (attempting at various times to seduce her). The matron called for his immediate dismissal. When questioned as to the reasons behind his leaving the post, Waugh claimed that he had been asked to leave because of "inebriation". Waugh went on to learning cabinet-making and journalism to support himself before his first literary success.

Writing Career

In 1928 Waugh's novel Decline and Fall was published. The titl from Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that Gibbon had written in six volumes. Gibbon's work was characterized by irony, he outlined the bankruptcy and dissolution of Rome, along with the disintegration of religion. Waugh's novel was a completely modern and upbeat tale. His writing was characterized by humor, wit, and satire; it dealt with a dissolution of a different kind than that addressed by Gibbon. Decline and Fall tells of a young divinity student, Paul Pennyfeather, his accidental expulsion from Oxford because of indecency, ("I expect you’ll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir," says the College porter to Paul, "That’s what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour") Pennyfeather rises socially through his aquaintance with the high class of London society. Eventually, the main character learns that life outside the social status world is a much happier place.

'Aim high has been my motto,' said Sir Humphrey, 'all through my life. You probably won't get what you want, but you may get something; aim low, and you get nothing at all. It's like throwing a stone at a cat. When I was a kid that used to be great sport in our yard; I daresay you were throwing cricket-balls when you were that age, but it's the same thing. If you throw straight at it, you fall short; aim above, and with luck you score. Every kid knows that. I'll tell you the story of my life.

Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall

In 1930 Vile Bodies followed and Waugh's literary popularity became even more solidified. Waugh described his descriptive novel of Bright Young People as "a welter of sex and snobbery." Waugh followed up his success with Black Mischief in 1932, A Handful of Dust in 1934, and Scoop in 1937.

Throughout these years of writing, Waugh's personal life was just as busy. He was married twice, first in 1928 to Hon. Evelyn Gardner, and the irony of their names was not lost on their friends. They were lovingly called He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn, and it seemed to be a lovely romance, until Evelyn proved to be unfaithful. Her adultery actually inspired Waugh in writing A Handful of Dust (a story dealing with adultery). The marriage ended in divorce and eventual annulement in 1930. With the annulment confirmed, and Waugh's heart broken, he turned back to religion, converting to Catholisicm. He traveled extensively in Africa and South America, writing several travel books along the way, also working as a foreign correspondent. With his new religion helping him to heal, Waugh met and married a fellow Catholic, Laura Herbert. Laura was the daughter of Aubrey Herbert, and granddaughter of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. This marriage proved to be lasting and beautiful. Both Waugh and Laura stayed true and faithful to each other, the were compatible and happy, they made each other laugh and they enjoyed their family. The couple had seven children together, one of whom, Auberon Waugh made a name for himself through a successful writing and journalism career.

The Thirties

The 1930s was an amazing decade for Evelyn Waugh. He had a happy marriage, he welcomed children, he traveled the world, and book after successful book was being published. It was a calm decade before World War II would change his life. People, English and American alike, could not get enough of the brilliant satires he wrote about contemporary upper class English society. Ironically, he was on his way to becoming a well known figure in aristocratic and fashionable circles of the very society he often mocked. But, these acquaintances helped him develop his acute vision that helped him depict so accuratly the aristocracy. Waugh's writing style was very appealing, reaching wide audiences, it was not challenging to read, it was simple and elegant, and yet, highly innovative and inventive. He characterized his stories with traits like writing an entire chapter in dialogue of telephone calls. The 1930s also represented a change in his writings, now longer was he writing about the irreligious, but instead, his writing found a voice in advocating Catholic themes. His writings now were not only witty and humorous, but also deepened to encompass faith and integrity.

Waugh's extensive travels around the Mediterranean and Red Sea, Spitsbergen, Africa and South America opened up the world to Waugh, it introduced him to different people and cultures and definately added flavor and culture references to his writings. His excellent travel books written during this time are often seen as being among the best in this genre. A compendium of Waugh's favourite travel writing has been issued under the title When The Going Was Good.

Second World War

With the advent of the Second World War, Waugh used "friends in high places", such as Randolph Churchill — son of Winston — to find him a service commission. Though 36 years old with poor eyesight, he was commissioned in the Royal Marines in 1940. Few can have been less suited to command troops. He lacked a common touch. Though personally brave, he did not suffer fools gladly. There was some concern that the men under his command might shoot him instead of the enemy. Promoted to captain, Waugh found life in the Marines dull.

Waugh participated in the failed attempt to take Dakar from the Vichy French in late 1940. Following a joint exercise with No.8 Commando (Army), he applied to join them and was accepted. Waugh took part in an ill-fated commando raid on the coast of Libya. As special assistant to the famed commando leader Robert Laycock, Waugh showed conspicuous bravery during the fighting in Crete in 1941, supervising the evacuation of troops while under attack by Stuka dive bombers.

Later, Waugh was placed on extended leave for several years and reassigned to the Royal Horse Guards. During this period he wrote Brideshead Revisited. He was recalled for a military/diplomatic mission to Yugoslavia in 1944 at the request of his old friend Randolph Churchill. He and Churchill narrowly escaped capture or death when the Germans undertook Operation Rösselsprung, and paratroops and glider-borne storm troops attacked the Partisan headquarters where they were staying. An outcome was a formidable report detailing Tito's persecution of the clergy. It was "buried" by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as being largely irrelevant.

Some of Waugh's best-loved and best-known novels come from this period. Brideshead Revisited (1945), is an evocation of a vanished pre-War England. It is an extraordinary work which in many ways has come to define Waugh and his view of his world. It not only painted a rich picture of life in England and at Oxford University at a point in time (before World War II), which Waugh himself loved and embellished in the novel. But it allowed him to share his feelings about his Catholic faith, principally through the actions of his characters. Amazingly, he was granted leave from the war to write it. The book was applauded by his friends, not just for an evocation of a time now — and then — long gone, but also for its examination of the manifold pressures within a traditional Catholic family. It was a huge success in Britain and in the United States. Later, it became a popular series on televison in both countries, and around the world. Waugh revised the novel in the late 1950s because he found parts of it "distasteful on a full stomach" by which he meant that he wrote the novel during the grey privations of the latter war years.

Much of Waugh's war experience is reflected in the Sword of Honour trilogy. It consists of three novels, Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961), which loosely parallel his wartime experiences. His trilogy, along with his other work after the 1930s, became some of the best books written about the Second World War. Many of his portraits are unforgettable, and often show striking resemblances to noted real personalities. Waugh biographer, Christopher Sykes, felt that that the fire-eating officer in the Sword of Honour trilogy, Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook, "...bears a very strong resemblance to..." Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart VC, a friend of the author's father-in-law. Waugh was familiar with Carton De Wiart through the club to which he belonged. The fictional commando leader, Tommy Blackhouse, is based on Major-General Sir Robert Laycock, a real-life commando leader and friend of Waugh's.

Later years

The period after the war saw Waugh living with his family in the West Country at his country homes, Piers Court, and from 1956 onwards, at Combe Florey in Somerset, where he lived as a country gentleman. He bequeathed Combe Florey to his son Auberon. He made his living through writing and became, to his critics, a self-parodying reactionary figure.[citation needed] He was bitterly disappointed when the Roman Catholic Church, which he in part loved for what he perceived as its timelessness, began to adopt modern vernacular liturgy and other changes.[citation needed]

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) depicts its hero's steady descent into madness — the experience was actually Waugh's own, the result of taking sleeping medication which induced a severe bout of paranoia that reached its peak on a sea-voyage to Ceylon (Sri Lanka).[citation needed] This period also produced Helena, (1953), a fictional account of the Empress Helena and the finding of the True Cross, which Waugh regarded as his best work. [citation needed]

Latterly Waugh put on a lot of weight, and the sleeping draughts he continued to take, combined with a heavy intake of alcohol, cigars and little exercise, weakened his health. His writing productivity gradually ran down, and there was a very noticeable falling off in the quality of what fiction he did write (his last published work, Basil Seal Rides Again, taking up some of the characters from his very earliest satirical works, did not meet critical or popular approval). At the same time, he continued to produce valuable journalism.

He died, aged 62, on 10 April 1966, on returning home from Mass on Easter Sunday. His estate at probate was valued at £20,068. This did not include the value of his lucrative copyrights, which Waugh put in a trust for his children. He is buried at Combe Florey, Somerset.[citation needed]

List of works

Novels

  • Decline and Fall (1928) ISBN 10-0316926078
  • Vile Bodies (1930 ISBN 10-0316926116
  • Black Mischief (1932) ISBN 10-0316917338
  • A Handful of Dust (1934) ISBN 10-0316926051
  • Scoop (novel)|Scoop (1938) ISBN 10-0316926108
  • Put Out More Flags (1942) ISBN 10-0316916056
  • Brideshead Revisited (subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder) (1945) ISBN 10-0316926345
  • The Loved One (1947) (subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy) ISBN 10-0316926086 *Helena (1950 novel)|Helena (1950)
  • Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future (1953)ISBN 10-082942122X
  • The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957) ISBN 10-0316926221
  • Sword of Honour Trilogy ISBN 10-0316925985
    • Men at Arms (Evelyn Waugh)|Men at Arms (1952)ISBN 10-0316926280
    • Officers and Gentlemen (1955) ISBN 10-0316926302
    • Unconditional Surrender (novel)|Unconditional Surrender (1961) ISBN 10-0141186879

Biography

  • Saint Edmund Campion: Priest and Martyr ISBN 10-0918477441
  • The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti ISBN 10-0715607723

Autobiography

  • A Little Learning (1964) ISBN 10-0413519309

Biographies about Evelyn Waugh

  • Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour by Frances Donaldson, 1967.
  • Evelyn Waugh by Christopher Sykes, 1975.
  • Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903 - 1939 by Martin Stannard, 1987. ISBN 10-0393306054
  • Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939 - 1966 by Martin Stannard, 1994. ISBN 10-0393034127

Cultural references

  • 'Evelyn Waugh' is used as a pseudonym for an American actress staying at a hotel in Tokyo in the film Lost in Translation, 2003 (Kelly (Anna Faris): "I'm under Evelyn Waugh." Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson): "Evelyn Waugh was a man.").

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