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Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) is not only one of the greatest twentieth-century English novelists and stylists, but one whose Catholic faith informs much of his writing. The son of a publisher and literary critic, he abandoned most of his religious beliefs in his late teens. At university, he befriended a circle of aristocrats, socialites, and aesthetes, combining his artistic pursuits with a dissipated life. Following university, he worked for several years as a schoolteacher and eked out a living as a writer and journalist. In 1929, his wife left him for her lover, one of his friends. They had only been married for a year. In 1930, he converted to Catholicism and in 1937 he remarried. He and Laura would have seven children. During World War Two, he served in the Armed Forces but grew disillusioned with the Allies’ abandonment of Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union. Famed for his crusty personality and unfashionable beliefs, during his final years, he struggled with ill-health, meagre finances, and discontent at both the rise of socialism in the United Kingdom and the novus ord