In 1930, for example, wearing his journalist hat, Waugh covered Haile Selassie I's coronation as emperor of Ethiopia-which he described as "an elaborate propaganda effort" to disguise the emperor's true brutality. In addition to novels, Waugh wrote travel books, short stories and articles. Ī series of military appointments, solitary travels and an unhappy marriage fueled Waugh's subsequent works, and although his own assessment of his writing varied widely, he is considered a master of sardonic wit and a wordsmith of technical brilliance. Waugh was ultimately displeased with the book, but his reputation was on its way to being cemented and was further established by his debut novel Decline and Fall (1928). After going to see a friend, Anthony Powell, who was working with the English publishing company Duckworth, Waugh was commissioned to write a biographical work of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He left before earning his degree, however, and took a series of low-paying teaching jobs while trying to be an artist. Waugh loved his life at Oxford, quickly adapting and adopting the trappings of student life: pipe, bike and a wry attitude. Nonetheless Waugh still earned a scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford. He resented the displacement but continued to distinguish himself as a writer and an artist, if also a bit of a cynic and schoolyard bully-photographer Cecil Beaton was one of his victims. Due to a homosexual scandal involving his brother at the Sherborne School, Waugh was forced to attend Lancing, a strongly religious institution. Waugh was close to his mother but felt somewhat shut out by the bond between his father and older brother. Then.there was The World to Come, written in the meter of Hiawatha." Waugh followed that up, he said, with a 5,000-word novel about school life that was "intolerably bad." "I wrote my first piece of fiction at 7: 'The Curse of the Horse Race,'" Evelyn Waugh later told a Paris Review interviewer. The younger boy began writing and illustrating short stories as a small child. Both Waugh, known as Evelyn, and his older brother, Alec, were destined to become well-known novelists. Arthur was a managing director of a publisher that handled the work of writer Charles Dickens (whom Waugh came to loathe). John Waugh was born on October 28, 1903, in London, England, the second son of Catherine and Arthur Waugh. Waugh died in Somerset, England, in 1966. During World War II, Waugh's writing took on a more serious and ambitious turn, culminating in his masterwork Brideshead Revisited. His books are unusually highly wrought and precisely written, and those penned before 1939 may be described as satirical. After short periods as an art student and schoolmaster, Evelyn Waugh devoted himself to both traveling and writing novels.
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