![]() ![]() ![]() Waugh produced 28 books between 19-novels, biographies, travel accounts and an incomplete autobiography. It was partly the result of jealousy with which he believed a conscientious artist must guard his privacy.Īnd it was partly the result of the flippant and bizarre view of life that became a trademark of most of his early works. He was committed to the aristocratic way of life and to tradition. A sign outside his country house warned uninvited visitors, "No admittance on business." Waugh was not the kind of man to suffer fools gladly. With that impatient and somewhat irascible comment, Evelyn Waugh dismissed a question from an interviewer who wanted to know how he wrote the novels that made him one of the great literary figures of modern England. "I put the words down and push them a bit." ![]() The cause of death was not immediately known. He collapsed at his home, Combe Florey, during the afternoon. The novelist, a strongly committed convert to Roman Catholicism, attended Easter services this morning at the Wiveliscombe Church. In Taunton, Somerset, 140 miles west of London. ![]() ApEvelyn Waugh, Satirical Novelist, Is Dead at 62 Special to The New York Times ONDON, April 10-Evelyn Waugh who wrote deeply moral satires that flayed the English aristocracy he identified himself with, died today at his home ![]()
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