Evelyn Waugh was born in 1903 and was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). In 1945 he published Brideshead Revisited and he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1952 for Men at Arms. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.
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Mr Waugh is a master of narrative: every sentence compels you to
reads its successor -- Raymond Mortimer * Sunday Times *
It goes without saying that Helena is amusing, shapely, and
well-written, and it also contains some extremely witty incidents *
New Statesman *
Helena was Waugh's most intentional statement about the
truth of Christianity and about vocation as the heart of Christian
discipleship -- George Weigel
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