Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh /ˈwɔː/ , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust , his novel Brideshead Revisited and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour . Waugh is widely recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. The son of a publisher, Waugh was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a schoolmaster... before becoming a full-time writer. As a young man, he acquired many fashionable and aristocratic friends, and developed a taste for country house society that never left him. In the 1930s he travelled extensively, often as a special newspaper correspondent; he was reporting from Abyssinia at the time of the 1935 Italian invasion. He served in the British armed forces throughout the Second World War, first in the Royal Marines and later in the Royal Horse Guards.
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| Birthdate: | October 28, 1903 |
| Birthplace: | London |
| Date of death: | April 10, 1966 |
| Education: | Hertford College, Oxford |
| Religion: | Roman Catholicism |
| Also known as: | Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh |