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Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic and publisher.
Alec Waugh (born July 8, 1898, Hampstead, London—died Sept. 3, 1981, Tampa, Fla., U.S.) was an English popular novelist and travel writer, older brother of the writer Evelyn Waugh. Waugh was educated at Sherborne, from which he was expelled, and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
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Genre. Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs. edit data. Born Alexander Raban Waugh to Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. He was the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh. His third wife was Virginia Sorenson, author of the Newbery Medal-winning Miracles on Maple Hill.
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- September 3, 1981
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Sep 4, 1981 · Alec Waugh, the author of 50 books during a career that spanned nearly 65 years and who was best known for ''Island in the Sun,'' died yesterday in Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital, two weeks...
Alec Waugh has 90 books on Goodreads with 2016 ratings. Alec Waugh’s most popular book is Island in the Sun: A Story of the 1950's Set in the West.
Former Wanganui police commander Alec Waugh has been awarded $1 million for lost pay, expenses and the humiliation he suffered while battling to get his job back.
Jun 25, 2007 · The first was Alec (1898-1981), who, in the words of his nephew, “wrote many books, each worse than the last.” The second was Evelyn (1903-66), the greatest comic novelist of the twentieth ...
