“I do no work here,” Donohue quotes Waugh in a letter to a friend, “and never go to Chapel.” In 1928, he was married to a woman also named Evelyn, leading friends to call them “Evelyn ...

In one of his instructive analyses of Waugh’s novelistic techniques, Mr. Stannard quotes from a 1964 BBC interview in which Waugh said: “The feelings should be the reader’s, the customer’s.

McLaren is a superfan, who as a 17-year-old fell in love with Waugh and now wants to meet the object of his affections. "Every time I get close enough to Evelyn, I intend to shake hands with the ...

Evelyn Waugh News from United Press International. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies.

Joseph Kanon, author of the best-selling thrillers “The Good German” and “Leaving Berlin,” is an unabashed admirer of Evelyn Waugh. But even he admits that Waugh is a hard writer to defend ...

IN “The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War,” David Lebedoff has pulled off a literary feat. It isn’t possible to find two 20th century literary peers who, at first ...