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His first wife was Barbara Jacobs (1900-1996), daughter of the writer William Wymark Jacobs, his second wife was Joan Chirnside (1902-1969), and his third wife was Virginia Sorenson (1912-1991), author of the Newbery Medal-winning Miracles on Maple Hill.
Throughout their childhood Alec and Evelyn Waugh knew they were destined to follow their father to the hallowed grounds of Sherborne School. Alec, who was five years older than Evelyn, came to Sherborne School in 1911 and joined his father’s old house (School House), with Evelyn down to follow in September 1917. [5]
Nov 26, 2011 · Peter Waugh's father was Alec, Evelyn Waugh's elder brother. He tells Patrick Barkham about the father whose love he couldn't accept – and the uncle who scared him
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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- Evelyn Waugh Was Incredibly old-fashioned.
- Evelyn Waugh's Brother Wrote A Bestselling Novel at Age 17.
- Evelyn Waugh Based His Novel Scoop on His Career as A Journalist.
- Evelyn Waugh Failed to Deliver His One Real Scoop.
- The Daily Beast Is Named as An Homage to Evelyn Waugh.
- Winston Churchill Procured A Military Commission For Evelyn Waugh.
- Evelyn Waugh Stole His Children’s Bananas.
- Evelyn Waugh Killed A Hollywood Film of Brideshead Revisited.
Waugh was often mistaken in print for a woman, thanks to his first name. In 2016, a TIMEpoll even named him the 97th "most read female author in college classes," a mistake that inevitably went viral. This wasn’t even the strangest incident. When Waugh arrived in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia and Eritrea) in the 1930s, on assignment from the Daily Mail, ...
Waugh married Evelyn Gardner, an aristocratic socialite, in June 1928 despite the objections of her family; they thought Waugh lacked ambition and direction. Their friends called them He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn. The marriage broke down a year later, however, when Gardner had an affair with their mutual friend, John Heygate, and eventually left Waugh ...
According to NBC producer Edwin Newman, who filmed a TV interview with Waugh in 1956, the novelist wished he had been born 200 or 300 yearsearlier. He loathed the modern world and its technology; he refused to fly in a plane or learn to how to drive a car. He resisted using the telephone in favor of writing letters, which he did with an old-fashion...
Alec Waugh, Evelyn's older brother, wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Loom of Youth based on his time at the elite Sherborne School, a boarding school in Dorset. The novel was incredibly controversial for its time—it depicted homosexual relationships between students as well as hypocrisies and prejudices in the school system—and it was also...
In 1935, Waugh and approximately 100 other journalists arrived in Abyssinia to cover the invasion of Benito Mussolini’s fascist military. Waugh didn't think much of being a journalist. According to The Guardian, he described journalists as "lousy competitive hysterical [and] lying." Waugh didn't even know how to use a typewriter and regularly predi...
While in Abyssinia, Waugh befriended some Italians, who gave him a heads-up when their leader was preparing to leave Addis—a move that meant the fascist invasion was imminent. It was the moment they had all been waiting for, and Waugh didn't want the tip to find its way into another journalist's hands. Waugh sent a telegram alerting his Daily Maile...
The paper at the center of Scoop is the brazen tabloid The Daily Beast. In 2008, editor Tina Brown chose that name for her news website to honor Waugh's novel. But critics picked up on the fact that, just like its fictional counterpart, Brown’s project was owned and financed by a media baron. In her case, it was film and television executive Barry ...
At the start of World War II, Waugh solicited his friend Randolph Churchill, the son of future prime minister Winston Churchill, to help him obtain a military commission. Waugh finally got a position in the Royal Marines because of the elder Churchill’s admiration for his dogged determination. While one of his subordinates said that he was "everyth...
After World War II ended, a shipment of bananas arrived in England for the first time in years. Laura Herbert Waugh managed to procure three bananasfor her three oldest children. As son Auberon recounted in his 1991 autobiography, Evelyn snatched the fruit for himself, peeled each one, doused them in cream and sugar, and ate them as his children wa...
MGM proposed a film version of Waugh's epic novel Brideshead Revisited in 1946, and offered a significant sum for the rights. When Waugh met the screenwriter in 1947, he realized that Hollywood saw Brideshead only as a love story with a happy ending—not a family and class saga interwoven with Catholic themes, as Waugh had written it. He sent the st...
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Sep 4, 1981 · Mr. Waugh, who was previously married to Barbara Jacobs of England and Joan Chirnside of Australia, is survived by his wife, Virginia Sorensen, an author of children's novels.
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Jun 3, 2007 · Arthur retaliated by writing to Alec’s first child that “the three great things in my life have been my mother, my wife and my son — your father.” The omission was deadly and deliberate.
