"Charity requires that one forgive Waugh," argues Christopher Hitchens in "The Permanent Adolescent," his essay on the author in the May Atlantic, "precisely because it was his innate—as well as his ...

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 Another went unpublished and is counted among his juvenilia, and yet another was released only in a limited edition of several hundred ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON — Auberon Waugh, acerbic son of novelist Evelyn Waugh and an accomplished author and editor in his own right, died in his sleep Tuesday night at the age of 61. He was an inveterate smoker with ...

After reviewing the data from more than one million college syllabi, Time published a list of the top 100 female authors read in college classes. Kate L. Turabian and Diana Hacker, both authors of ...