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Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh is commonly known for writing the popular novel Brideshead Revisited in 1945.
However he published many many more successful novels, commenting on issues such as colonialism, power, war, race, and the mass media. Some of his other books include Decline and Fall
Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines in 1939 and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and Yugoslavia.
He died in 1966. See the clip of Stephen Fry’s Directorial debut of Bright Young Things, based on Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies.
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