It is 50 years since Evelyn Waugh died, of a heart attack at Easter 1966 after attending Mass. He was only 62, but old before his time, in poor health—deaf, alcoholic and depressed by the Second ...

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 ...

Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) published 14 novels between 1928 and 1961. Another went unpublished and is counted among his juvenilia, and yet another was released only in a limited edition of several hundred ...

Waugh’s life and career have already been explored in three major biographies and numberless specialised studies. Why, then, do we need Eade? The answer is simple. A treasure trove of previously ...

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

Ninety years ago the English publisher Duckworth issued a biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by an unknown writer. The anonymous reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement heaped scorn on the efforts ...