In his books, Evelyn Waugh was a giant of 20th Century English literature; in life, he was nasty, British and short. All three qualities were essential to Waugh`s persona, his art and his continued ...

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 Another went unpublished and is counted among his juvenilia, and yet another was released only in a limited edition of several hundred ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in America on April 10, 1993, titled “Portrait of the Artist as a Christian Wayfarer.” For some years after coming to the United States in 1940, ...

WHEN blurb writers are caroling the praises of some newly emerged maestro of sophisticated farce, they can seldom resist the temptation of comparing him to “the early Evelyn Waugh.” Despite the fact ...