Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939 (Vol. 1)

“A literary biography of the same caliber as Richad Ellmann’s James Joyce, James Lees-Milne’s Harold Nicolson, Hilary Spurling’s Ivy Compton-Burnett and Rupert Hart-Davis’ Hugh Walpole.” —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"The Evelyn Waugh who emerges from this fascinating and masterful account is a far different, and a far more complex, figure than the one most readers know. . . . Not only supersedes all earlier accounts of the writer but also is a model of the biographer’s art." —Michael Gorra, New York Newsday