Waugh set his tale among people and events he knew well: the Bright Young Things of pre-World War II England, whose lives were a boozy round of parties and assignations, at country houses, weekend ...
The following is an interview held by Five Books for Catholics with Christopher J. Scalia about Evelyn Waugh’s life and work. “The reputation of Evelyn Waugh rests on two premises: that he was one of ...
THE EARLY YEARS OF ALEC WAUGH by Alec Waugh. 312 pages. Farrar, Sfraus. $6. “If I were not myself,” writes Alec Waugh, “and if I were to pick up the autobiography of Alec Waugh, the first name that I ...
Novelist, travel writer, essayist, and biographer Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), the 50th anniversary of whose death rolled around this year, celebrated by those survivors who had the misfortune of knowing ...