Evelyn Waugh
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Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.
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Lord Cockburn, the Scottish judge, was one of Waugh's great-great-grandfathers.
Blue plaque at 145 North End Road, Golders Green, London
Lancing College Chapel in West Sussex
Hertford College, Oxford; Old Quadrangle
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the subject of Waugh's first full-length book (1927)
Canonbury Square, where Waugh and Evelyn Gardner lived during their brief marriage
Emperor Haile Selassie, whose coronation Waugh attended in 1930 on the first of his three trips to AbyssiniaAwards 2
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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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