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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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Waugh loved his life at Oxford, quickly adapting and adopting the trappings of student life: pipe, bike and a wry attitude. He left before earning his degree, however, and took a series of...
Apr 7, 2016 · He suffered a massive coronary thrombosis at his home on April 10 1966. He had just attended mass and his favourite daughter, Meg, believed he’d been praying for death. Suspicious of the...
- Barbara Cooke
Jan 11, 2017 · The years at Oxford portray him as neglecting his history studies and earning humiliating grades as he lapsed into a decade of heavy drinking and what his friend Christopher Hollis called “a...
Jul 3, 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 26, 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.”
Evelyn Waugh died after Mass on Easter Sunday, 1966, and left a world impoverished of one of its great stylists, humorists, provocateurs and characters.
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