Evelyn Waugh by Selina Hastings
This biography of Evelyn Waugh, written with the full co-operation of the family and making use of a mass of unpublished letters and diaries, traces the remarkable career of a writer who, though respected, was always controversial and undoubtedly eccentric. In particular, it sheds new light on his difficult relationship with his father, his homosexual affair at Oxford, his unhappy first marriage to Evelyn Gardner, and his years of sexual adventure before his second marriage. Hastings also uncovers his attitude to the Church, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his disastrous relationship with the military, and his enduring, but difficult, friendships with his three favourite women: Nancy Mitford, Diana Cooper and Ann Fleming.
SELINA HASTINGS is a writer and journalist, the author of four literary biographies. A lifelong Londoner, Selina was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Oxford University. Her first job was at Hatchard's bookshop, after which she worked for fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and for eight years was literary editor of Harper's & Queen. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje and Duff Cooper Prizes, and of the UK Biographers' Award. Selina has written biographies of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh (winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham. She has also written a number of books for children, including a complete retelling of the Bible. In 2010 she won the Spear's Award For Outstanding Achievement for a body of work ?and in 2011 the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781856192231 |
| ISBN 10 | 1856192237 |
| Title | Evelyn Waugh |
| Author | Selina Hastings |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 733 |
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