As British author Philip Eade puts it with characteristic aptness: “A brilliant and extraordinarily clear writer, Evelyn Waugh could hardly have been easier to understand and enjoy on the page ...

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 ...

“What would Evelyn Waugh have thought of this?” they asked, “Was it written as an antidote to Brideshead Revisited?” One magazine even asked me to review it (my own book) in the manner and ...

Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930, shortly after the dissolution of his unfortuitous marriage, to Evelyn (“Ev-” like ... For Charles Ryder, the book’s narrator, the profane love ...

As Alexander Waugh, a music critic and author, writes in "Fathers and Sons ... from our pens in cataracts ever since." Alexander is Evelyn's grandson, and his immensely detailed, highly diverting ...

as Alexander Waugh’s new book, Fathers and Sons, is subtitled. Although Evelyn married into the upper class, whose novelist-in-residence he became, and tried somewhat comically to play the ...

Despite the fact that Brideshead Revisited—which introduces the “later or “serious Evelyn Waugh — has sold many more copies in the United States than all of Waugh’s other books put ...

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.

1. Evelyn Waugh's first name caused confusion. Waugh was often mistaken in print for a woman, thanks to his first name. In 2016, a TIME poll even named him the 97th "most read female author in ...

On Thursday the Huntington Library announced a significant donation: a collection of Evelyn Waugh books, manuscripts and correspondence. The gift will make the Huntington the second leading center ...