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Alec Waugh (1898-1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of Evelyn Waugh, and author of The Loom of Youth and Island in the Sun. He lived in various countries, married three times, and wrote about wine, travel, and reggae music.
Jul 4, 2024 · Alec Waugh (born July 8, 1898, Hampstead, London—died Sept. 3, 1981, Tampa, Fla., U.S.) was an English popular novelist and travel writer, older brother of the writer Evelyn Waugh. Waugh was educated at Sherborne, from which he was expelled, and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
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Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (30 December 1963 – 22 July 2024) was an English writer, critic, and journalist. Among other books, he wrote Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (2004), about five generations of his own family, and The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War (2008) about the Wittgenstein family .
Written in 1916 in seven and a half weeks by 17-year-old Alec Waugh, just six months after he had been expelled from Sherborne School, the novel presents an unsentimental view of the life of the public schoolboy just before the outbreak of the First World War.
Alec Waugh was a British novelist, travel writer and biographer, and the elder brother of Evelyn Waugh. He wrote semi-autobiographical novels such as The Loom of Youth, and travel books such as Island in the Sun and Bangkok.
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Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. He was commissioned in the Dorset Regiment in May 1917 and saw action at Passchendaele.
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