Category Archives: Biographies

More Praise for New Waugh Study

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The reviewer for the Daily Telegraph (Miranda Seymour) has joined those for the Daily Mail and Independent in praising Duncan McLaren’s new biographical approach to Evelyn Waugh’s early life. See earlier post. According to Seymour: McLaren … offers us two scoops. Exposing … Continue reading →

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New Approach to Waugh Appears Later This Week

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A new biography of Evelyn Waugh will appear in the U.K. later this week. This is Evelyn! Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love, Harbour Books, Chelmsford, Essex, 14.00 pounds, 294 pp. It is written by Duncan McLaren who previously wrote a … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Press Nemesis Recalled in The Independent

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

The Independent on Sunday newspaper (April 20, 2014) has run an article recalling the career of a media figure from the 1950s who locked horns with Evelyn Waugh. Christopher Fowler’s article appears in the paper’s regular column Invisible Ink devoted to forgotten … Continue reading →

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Malcolm Muggeridge on Waugh and Stopp’s biography

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

In 1959 Malcolm Muggeridge reviewed Frederick J. Stopp’s biography of Evelyn Waugh for the New Republic and described his own slight acquaintance with its subject: The last time I saw him was at a wedding. I am no expert on … Continue reading →

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All Evelyn Waugh fiction now available in audiobook format

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

All Evelyn Waugh’s works of fiction, both novels and short stories, are now available in audiobook format from Audible.com. The Complete Short Stories includes Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing, Scott-King’s Modern Europe, Love Among the Ruins, Work Suspended, and Basil Seal Rides … Continue reading →

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The Fertile Fact: Speculative biographical writing

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The Fertile Fact is a new literary website which “celebrates the speculative nature of biographical writing. We invite biographers/experts/super-fans to draw on their knowledge and compile a list of five things or aspects of modern life that they think their … Continue reading →

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Selina Hastings’s Evelyn Waugh republished

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Evelyn Waugh, the highly regarded 1995 biography by Selina Hastings, is being republished in the UK this month by Capuchin Classics, with publication in the US later this year. Several author lectures and books signings have been scheduled to coincide … Continue reading →

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