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Who Was Evelyn Waugh?

After short periods as an art student and schoolmaster, Evelyn Waugh devoted himself to both traveling and writing novels.

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His books are unusually highly wrought and precisely written, and those penned before may be described as satirical. During World War II, Waugh's writing took on a more serious and ambitious turn, culminating in his masterwork Brideshead Revisited. Waugh died in Somerset, England, in

Early Life and Writing

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John Waugh was born on October 28, , in London, England, the second son of Catherine and Arthur Waugh. Arthur was a managing director of a publisher that handled the work of writer Charles Dickens (whom Waugh came to loathe).

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Both Waugh, known as Evelyn, and his older brother, Alec, were destined to become well-known novelists. The younger boy began writing and illustrating short stories as a small child. "I wrote my first piece of fiction at 7: 'The Curse of the Horse Race,'" Evelyn Evelyn Waugh - Wikipedia CYWU