Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh, circa 1940 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 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. His most famous works include the early satires ''Decline and Fall'' (1928) and ''A Handful of Dust'' (1934), the novel ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1945), and the Second World War trilogy ''Sword of Honour'' (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.

Waugh was the son of a publisher, educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College, Oxford. He worked briefly as a schoolmaster before he became a full-time writer. As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends and developed a taste for country house society.

He travelled extensively in the 1930s, often as a special newspaper correspondent; he reported from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion. Waugh served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War, first in the Royal Marines and then in the Royal Horse Guards. He was a perceptive writer who used the experiences and the wide range of people whom he encountered in his works of fiction, generally to humorous effect. Waugh's detachment was such that he fictionalised his own mental breakdown which occurred in the early 1950s.

Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930 after his first marriage failed. His traditionalist stance led him to strongly oppose all attempts to reform the Church, and the changes by the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) greatly disturbed his sensibilities, especially the introduction of the vernacular Mass. That blow to his religious traditionalism, his dislike for the welfare state culture of the postwar world, and the decline of his health all darkened his final years, but he continued to write. He displayed to the world a mask of indifference, but he was capable of great kindness to those whom he considered his friends. After his death in 1966, he acquired a following of new readers through the film and television versions of his works, such as the television serial ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981). Provided by Wikipedia
Showing 1 - 19 results of 19 for search 'Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966', query time: 0.03s Refine Results
  1. 1
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1935
    Location: Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
    Book
  2. 2
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1953
    Location: Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
    Book
  3. 3
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1935
    Location: Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
    Book
  4. 4
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1946
    Location: Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
    Book
  5. 5
  6. 6
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1946
    Location: Paul Bechtold Library, Catholic Theological Union
    Book
  7. 7
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 2001
    Other Authors: ...Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966...
    Location: Paul Bechtold Library, Catholic Theological Union
    Book
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1935
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
    Book
  11. 11
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1946
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
    Book
  12. 12
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1979
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
    Book
  13. 13
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1932
    Location: Raynor Memorial Libraries, Marquette University
    Book
  14. 14
  15. 15
    by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
    Created 1942
    Location: Raynor Memorial Libraries, Marquette University
    Book
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
    Other Authors: ...Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966...
    Location: Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
    Book
  19. 19
    Created 1953
    Other Authors: ...Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966...
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
    Book