Evelyn Waugh

Born

October 28, 1903

Died

April 10, 1966 (aged 62)

Known as

war correspondent, novelist, writer, autobiographer, screenwriter, science fiction writer

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.

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