Evelyn Waugh : A Biography

One of the foremost writers of our time, Waugh was also one of its most extraordinary eccentrics. Hastings has uncovered a wealth of new material in her 8 years of research for this volume. Letters, diaries, & family photos shed new light on Waugh's life. Perceptive, fascinating, by turns hilarious & tragic, Hastings' portrait gives us Waugh's glittering social life at Oxford, where he was a friend of Harold Acton, Cyril Connolly, & Alastair Graham, the inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited. He then followed a diverse career as schoolmaster, world traveler, war correspondent, & as a novelist, one of the brightest lights of Britain's fashionable society.Hastings, Selina is the author of 'Evelyn Waugh : A Biography', published 2000 under ISBN 9780788194085 and ISBN 0788194089.