Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books, and also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall of 1928 and A Handful of Dust of 1934 and the novel Brideshead Revisited of 1945. Born in 1903 and dying in 1966. His works also include the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour, and he is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the twentieth century. The son of a publisher, he was educated at Lancing College and Hertford College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a schoolmaster before becoming a full-time writer.