the second from a whim of my mother’s,” Evelyn Waugh wrote in his autobiography, A Little Learning. “I have never liked the name. In America it is used only of girls and from time to time ...

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 ...

In his books, Evelyn Waugh was a giant of 20th Century English literature; in life, he was nasty, British and short. All three qualities were essential to Waugh`s persona, his art and his ...

On The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh. And so in January 1947 Waugh set off for another one of what he called those “distant and barbarous places . . . where ideas uprooted from their traditions, become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Naomi Milthorpe is currently editing a scholarly edition of Black Mischief as part of the 42-volume Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, for Oxford University Press. Waugh thought Black Mischief would ...