October 28, 1903–April 10, 1966

Evelyn Waugh was an English Catholic writer, acclaimed by Graham Greene as the greatest novelist of their generation.

Waugh wrote more than a dozen novels as well as numerous essays, short stories, and works of biography and travelogue. In addition to his best-known novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), his fiction includes A Handful of Dust (1934), The Loved One (1948), and Helena (1950), and his 1959 biography of Monsignor Ronald Knox (for whom he served as literary executor) is an exemplar of its genre.