Evelyn Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English Catholic and conservative journalist and author during the mid-20th century.
Biography[]
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in London, England on 28 October 1903, and he came from a distinguished family of partial Scottish descent. He was raised in then-rural Underhill, and he was educated at Lancing College and then at Hertford College, Oxford. He worked as a schoolteacher before becoming a full-time writer, and he served as a war correspondent in Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935 and later in the British Army during World War II. He became famous for his books on World War II, including Brideshead Revisited and the 1952-1961 trilogy Sword of Honor. Waugh, who had converted to traditionalist Catholicism in 1930, was a staunch conservative. He once expressed his regret that the Conservative Party had never put the clock back for a single minute, and he also opposed reform in the Catholic Church (especially the introduction of the vernacular Mass in 1965) and the creation of a welfare state under the Labour Party. He died in 1966.