Volume 40, Number 21 · December 16, 1993

Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Made Man

By Wilfrid Sheed
Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years 1939–1966
by Martin Stannard

Norton, 523 pp., $29.95

Last year's quiet winner in the crowded category of shock biography might just possibly be Martin Stannard's Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years. Scurvy allegations against the Kennedy family may still be fun, the way Benny Hill reruns are fun, but they are not news; good deeds by Evelyn Waugh, on the other hand…



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