Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh was born in London in 1903, the son of the publisher Arthur Waugh. He left Oxford without a degree and taught briefly at a preparatory school in Wales, then at another in England. He converted to Catholicism in 1930 and travelled widely, drawing books from his journeys, one of them on Mexico; sent to Abyssinia by the Daily Mail in 1935, he was dismissed from the paper. He then served in the Royal Marines and the commandos, in Crete, and afterwards on a military mission to the Yugoslav partisans. He died in 1966; his diaries were published in 1976, his letters in 1980.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelDecline and FallEvelyn Waugh · 1928Literature
• NovelScoopEvelyn Waugh · 1938Literature