Black Mischief [antikvár]

Evelyn Waugh was born "in Hampstead in 1903, second son of the late Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Láncing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1927 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gábriel Rossetti, and in 1928 his first növel, Decline and Fali, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful ofDust (1934), and Scoop (1938). During these years he travelled extensively in most parts of Europe, the Near East, Africa, and tropical America. In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia. In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags and then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited. When the Going was Good and The Loved One were followed by Helena (1950), his historical növel. Men at Arms, which came out in 1952, is the first volume in The Sword ofHonour trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Prize; the other volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, were published in 1955 and 1961. In 1964 A Little Learning, the first volume of an autobiography, was published. Evelyn Waugh was received into the Román Catholic Church in 1930, and his earlier biography of the Elizabethan Jesuit martyr, Edmund Campion, was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1936. In 1959 he published the official Life of Ronald Knox. He is married and has six children. Since 1937 he and his family have lived in the West Country.