Waugh, Auberon Alexander

Waugh, Auberon Alexander
▪ 2002

      British writer and satirist (b. Nov. 17, 1939, Dulverton, Somerset, Eng.—d. Jan. 16, 2001, Combe Florey, near Taunton, Somerset), simultaneously delighted and outraged readers with acerbic wit and conservative snobbery in his pointed, pithy, and cruelly funny commentaries on British politics and society. The eldest son of novelist Evelyn Waugh, “Bron” published five novels, beginning in 1960, but in 1972 he renounced fiction for journalism. Thereafter, his often vitriolic columns appeared regularly in such publications as The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, New Statesman, Spectator, Evening Standard, and Private Eye, for which he wrote a regular column from 1970 to 1986. As editor (1986–2000) and editor in chief (2000–01) of Literary Review, Waugh annually bestowed the good-humoured Bad Sex Award, granted to the novel containing the year's worst prose describing sex. Waugh published several collections of his writings and an autobiography, Will This Do? (1991).

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