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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Evelyn Waugh’s first trip to America was a disaster (except that it inspired The Loved One). He hated nearly every aspect of American life. His second trip was different. Joshua Hren explains ...

‘The more I see of other people’s children, the less I dislike my own,” Evelyn Waugh wrote to his friend and fellow author Nancy Mitford. Waugh’s equal-opportunity dyspepsia—he disliked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...