Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was a prominent British satirist and novelist, renowned for works like Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of Dust (1934), and Brideshead Revisited (1945), which explored themes of 1920s high society, modernism, and Catholicism after his 1930 conversion to Roman Catholicism. He also wrote travel books, biographies such as those of Rossetti and Edmund Campion, and the Sword of Honour war trilogy based on his WWII experiences. Educated at Oxford, Waugh's sharp wit and stylistic brilliance made him one of the 20th century's leading literary figures.

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