Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (Hampstead (London), 28 October 1903 – Combe Florey, at Taunton, 10 april 1966) was a British writer of mostly satirical novels. He was the second son of the Publisher and critic Arthur Waugh and brother of novelist Alec Waugh.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Life Course[ Edit] == ===Studies[ Edit] === He studied history in Lancing and Hertford College (Oxford). In Oxford he began drinking heavily, and there was also that he held a number of same-sex relationships began. [1]  [2]  [3]  ultimately proved his homosexuality a passing phase, but throughout his life he would remain a heavy drinker.
 * 1.1 Studies
 * 1.2 first works
 * 1.3 conversion to Catholicism
 * 1.4 later years
 * Work 2
 * 2.1 Novels
 * 2.2 collections of short stories
 * 2.3 Biographies
 * 2.4 autobiography

In 1925, he taught at a private school in Wales. Waugh wrote In his autobiography that he undertook at that time a suicide attempt by the sea in swimming, after he had written a suicide note in Greek. However, he returned back after he was stung by a jellyfish. ===First works[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1927, his first published work, a biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Waugh then worked among other things as a journalist, until in 1928 his first novel, Decline and Fall, was released. The book was a success, as well as the subsequent work as Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1929, he married Evelyn Gardner. The marriage was not a success and was annulled in 1936. His second marriage, with Laura Herbert (1937), had more success and lasted for the rest of his life. The couple had six children and Waugh stayed with his family for a long time in the West Country. His son Auberon Waugh was later also known as a journalist and writer. ===Conversion to Catholicism<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1930 converted Waugh converted to Catholicism, which strongly influenced his work, although not always on an eye-catching way. His earlier biography of the English Jesuit and martyr Edmund Campion from theElizabethan time got the Hawthornden Prize in 1936. His novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) placed him next to Graham Greene as the main representative of the Catholic literature of his country. In 1959 he published the biography The life of Ronald Knox .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">His extraordinary stylistic and satirical have gave him one of the leading authors of his time made. In his later novels will get the humor often sardonic something.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Between his two marriages, but also later undertook Waugh many travels, among other things by the Mediterranean, Africa, South America and Spitsbergen, which resulted in some good travel stories (When The Going Was Good).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Especially before the second world war his work was satirical in nature and he established his arrows on the English aristocracy and the ' better ' standings. His later work was more serious in nature, but continued humorous and witty in tone.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From 1939 and during the war worked Waugh at the Navy, among other things in the Middle East and Yugoslavia. He incorporated his experiences in the Sword of Honourtrilogy, an at times hilarious display of World War II. For his first book of this trilogy (Men at Arms from 1952) received the James Tait Black PrizeWaugh. The two following parts followed in 1955 (Officers and Gentleman) and 1961 (Unconditional Surrender). ===Later years<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Waugh was very critical of the changes that the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) brought about in the Tridentine liturgy<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Evelyn Waugh died unexpectedly at the age of 62 on Easter Sunday 1966 to a heart attack. ==Work<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Novels<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Bundles of short stories<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Biographies<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Autobiography<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Decline and Fall (1928)
 * Vile Bodies (1930)
 * Black Mischief (1932)
 * A Handful of Dust (1934)
 * Scoop (1938)
 * Put Out More Flags (1942)
 * Brideshead Revisited (1945) ISBN 1-85715-172-0
 * The Loved One (1948)
 * The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957)
 * Sword of Honour Trilogy:
 * Men at Arms (1952)
 * Officers and Gentlemen (1955)
 * Unconditional Surrender (1961)
 * Love Among the Ruins (1953)
 * Mr: Loveday's Little Outing And Other Sad Stories (1936)
 * Work Suspended: And Other Stories (1943)
 * Selected Works (1977)
 * Charles Ryder's Schooldays: And Other Stories (1982)
 * The Complete Short Stories (1997)
 * The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh (1998)
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's biography (1927
 * Saint Edmund Campion: Priest and Martyr
 * The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox (1959)
 * A little learning (1964), first volume of a biography