Evelyn Waugh

Wall Street Journal recently quoted Gore Vidal calling Evelyn Waugh a kind of prose

Born Again Redneck and his Naked Redneck Chicks Barry the Born Again Redneck 2010

(Anna Faris's airheaded starlet in the 2003 film "Lost in Translation" checks into a Tokyo hotel under the name "Evelyn Waugh," pronouncing the first name like a woman's, with a short E.)

Evelyn Waugh Revisited 2008

FSJ, I love the way you bait the Jepardytards with obvious errors such as Evelyn Waugh or Arab Portugal.

More media backlash 2007

Madresfield's dark status as a last redoubt for the constitutional monarchy contrasts starkly with the flippancy of the inter-war years, when it acted as a playground for artists such as Evelyn Waugh, and the idle rich.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Paring down a revered novel, such as Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, to fit even the generous borders of a television mini-series is one thing.

Movie City News 2009

Paring down a revered novel, such as Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, to fit even the generous borders of a television mini-series is one thing.

Movie City News 2009

Lost in Translation in which the zany blond actress says that she's booked her hotel room under "Evelyn Waugh," not realizing that Waugh was male.

Champaign Taste 2008

Lost in Translation in which the zany blond actress says that she's booked her hotel room under "Evelyn Waugh," not realizing that Waugh was male.

Champaign Taste 2008

Lost in Translation in which the zany blond actress says that she's booked her hotel room under "Evelyn Waugh," not realizing that Waugh was male.

Champaign Taste 2008

They are elegiac and admiring, such as Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, or they're affectionately mocking - look at Bertie Wooster, Freddie Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady, and The Fast Show's Ted and Ralph.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010