Thank you for your letter. Would it give you comfort if I suggest you call yourself the Official Auberon Waugh Appreciation Society rather than the Unofficial Auberon Waugh Appreciation Society? I ...
Auberon Waugh’s first novel, “The Foxglove Saga” (Simon & Schuster), was well received in England and makes its debut here introduced by a trio of stout literary uncles whose thwacks of friendly ...
WHO ARE THE VIOLETS NOW? by Auberon Waugh. 252 pages. Simon & Schuster. $4.95. Auberon Waugh is the son of the late Evelyn Waugh and a facile satirist in his own right (The Foxglove Saga, Path of ...
Alexander Waugh, son of the inflammatory but widely loved British journalist Auberon Waugh, grandson of literary giant Evelyn Waugh, great-grandson of poet and publisher Arthur Waugh, tells readers of ...
I wonder how many of my American readers know about Literary Review, the superb monthly review of books that was born in Edinburgh in 1979 but that popped up on the world’s radar screen in a major way ...
THE FOXGLOVE SAGA (252 pp.)—Auberon Waugh—Simon & Schuster ($3.95). “You are going to suffer a lot of irritation,” wrote Graham Greene to the author, “when reviewers compare you to Evelyn.” The reader ...
Privately, Auberon Waugh was “genial and generous,” as one friend put it. Publicly, he was “savage.” Why? “In his time as a columnist he wrote for many papers, from the Catholic Herald to the Daily ...