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 ...

Alexander Waugh is the grandson of Evelyn Waugh and the son of columnist Auberon Waugh. He has written several books, including, most recently, The House of Wittgenstein , Fathers and Sons , and God .

Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years, 1939-1966 By Martin Stannard Norton, 523 pages, $29.95 In his books, Evelyn Waugh was a giant of 20th Century English literature; in life, he was nasty, British and ...

The novelist Evelyn Waugh had three gay lovers during an 'acute homosexual phase' while studying at Oxford, according to a biography. Author Paula Byrne hails him as a 'great bisexual' writer and ...

The Evelyn Waugh fanatics. Why the author still has one of the most devoted followings in ... Ninety years ago the English publisher Duckworth issued a biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by an ...

From 1993: The second volume of a biography of Evelyn Waugh occasioned John W. Donohue, S.J., ... but almost any of Waugh’s books is apt to be somebody’s favorite.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) ... (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific ...

Alexander Waugh, who has died aged 60, was the son of the columnist Auberon Waugh and grandson of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, and a widely accomplished and colourful character in his own right. A ...

Early in his 1927 book on the Pre-Raphaelite painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Evelyn Waugh complains of a new fashion in biography in which objectivity is abandoned in favour of conjuring up the ...

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 ...

THE FOXGLOVE SAGA (252 pp.)—Auberon Waugh—Simon & Schuster ($3.95). "You are going to suffer a lot of irritation," wrote Graham Greene to the author, ... Books: Importance of Being Evelyn; ...