Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981
Variant namesAlec Waugh, elder brother of Evelyn Waugh, had a long and productive career as a writer. He fought in France in World War I, and was a prisoner of war; his first novel, the controversial Loom of Youth, was published during the war. After the war, he lived an itinerant lifestyle, and his travels supplied him with story ideas for his fiction and served as the basis of his popular travel books. A self-described 'minor writer, ' he also wrote essays and several popular memoirs of his life and family.
From the description of Alec Waugh letter to Martha Evans, 1973. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 57659884
British author (1898-1981).
From the description of Letters and manuscripts, 1957-1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309773030
Waugh, British novelist.
From the description of [Letter and postcard, 1930?-1955] / Alec. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 464289616
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| associatedWith | Evans, Martha, | person |
| associatedWith | Farrar, John Chipman, 1896-1974 | person |
| associatedWith | Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960. | person |
| associatedWith | Graves, Robert Windham, 1858-1934 | person |
| associatedWith | Halsband, Robert, 1914- | person |
| associatedWith | Haweis, Stephen. | person |
| associatedWith | Haweis, Stephen. | person |
| correspondedWith | Hope Hale Davis | person |
| associatedWith | Howard, Elizabeth Jane. | person |
| associatedWith | Jameson, Margaret. | person |
| associatedWith | Johnson, Margot, 1908-1979, | person |
| associatedWith | King, Francis Henry. | person |
| associatedWith | Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904-. | person |
| associatedWith | McComas, Gene Frances, 1886?-1982. | person |
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| correspondedWith | New Yorker Magazine, Inc | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Schirmer, Richard, | person |
| associatedWith | University of Virginia. Dept. of English. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. | person |
| correspondedWith | Woolmer, J. Howard. | person |
| associatedWith | Yaddo (Artist's colony) | corporateBody |
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Birth 1898-07-08
Death 1981-09-03
Britons
