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Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
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Evelyn Waugh: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Biographies include Christopher Sykes, Evelyn Waugh (1975); Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh, 2 vol. (1986–92); Selina Hastings, Evelyn Waugh (1994, reissued 2002); John Howard Wilson, Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Biography (1996– ); Douglas Lane Patey, The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography (1998), perhaps the finest biography; and David Wykes, Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life (1999). Martin Stannard (ed.), Evelyn Waugh: The Critical Heritage (1984, reprinted 1997), collects reviews of both first and later editions. Alain Blayac (ed.), Evelyn Waugh: New Directions (1992); Frederick L. Beaty, The Ironic World of Evelyn Waugh (1992); and George McCartney, Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition (1987, reprinted 2004), are critical studies.

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: University of Leicester - Evelyn Waugh. Jan 04, 2025
Anniversary information added. Oct 24, 2024
Add new Web site: Yale University - CampusPress - Evelyn Waugh. Oct 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture - Evelyn Waugh. Aug 30, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 15, 2024
Anniversary information added. Apr 06, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade review – an anthology of gossip. Jan 12, 2024
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Evelyn Waugh: The novelist's world war II service. Dec 01, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Texas at Austin - Harry Ransom Center - Evelyn Waugh: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center. Sep 19, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Leicester - Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh. Jul 29, 2023
Add new Web site: University of Leicester - Evelyn Waugh. Feb 09, 2023
Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Evelyn Waugh. Mar 04, 2020
Add new Web site: The University of Texas at Austin - Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - Biography of Evelyn Waugh. Sep 14, 2012
Add new Web site: Hertford College - Biography of Evelyn Waugh. May 07, 2012
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh. Feb 01, 2012
Add new Web site: Official Site of The Evelyn Waugh Society. Feb 01, 2012
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Evelyn Waugh. Nov 01, 2011
Article revised. Apr 22, 2005
Article revised. Mar 05, 1999
Article added to new online database. Feb 15, 1999
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