Alexander Waugh, grandson of the novelist Evelyn Waugh and an accomplished writer himself, offers as much in "Fathers and Sons," his "autobiography of a family." He promises to introduce us to his ...

Half a century after his death, the British writer Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) is widely regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the pre-eminent English novelist of the mid-20th century. His ...

Evelyn Waugh is one of those writers whose works it is delightful to read, but whom it is usually awful to read about. Which of course leads to the inevitable question: how could someone so nasty crea ...

To many contemporary viewers, “Brideshead Revisited” means not just Evelyn Waugh’s original novel but also memories of the celebrated 1980s television miniseries starring Jeremy Irons.

Also, there were crosswords. Waugh's scathing wit is largely reserved for the scribblers who have come to Ishmaelia and, having found no discernible war, simply go about concocting a conflict to ...

In "Evelyn Waugh Faces Life and Vice Versa" (December 1966), John Osborne described his experience with the ornery Waugh two decades before, when he'd been called on to smooth the author's ...

By Will Lloyd Art is not fair. If they knew what his reputation was now that is the lesson Evelyn Waugh’s contemporaries would surely learn. His literary generation was pacifistic, left-wing, ...