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Evelyn Waugh
(1903-1966)
Who Was Evelyn Waugh?
After short periods as an art student and schoolmaster, Evelyn Waugh devoted himself to both traveling and writing novels.
His books are unusually highly wrought and precisely written, and those penned before 1939 may be described as satirical.
Waugh biography
During World War II, Waugh's writing took on a more serious and ambitious turn, culminating in his masterwork Brideshead Revisited. Waugh died in Somerset, England, in 1966.
Early Life and Writing
Arthur Evelyn St.
John Waugh was born on October 28, 1903, in London, England, the second son of Catherine and Arthur Waugh. Arthur was a managing director of a publisher that handled the work of writer Charles Dickens (whom Waugh came to loathe).
Both Waugh, known as Evelyn, and his older brother, Alec, were destined to become well-known novelists. The younger boy began writing and illustrating short stories as a small child. "I wrote my first piece of fiction at 7: 'The Curse of the Ho