The Washington Post, August 16th, 1987
EVELYN WAUGH The Early Years 1903-1939 By Martin Stannard Norton. 537 pp. $24.95 EVELYN WAUGH has enjoyed a run of good luck ever since he dropped dead on Easter Sunday in 1966. In relatively rapid order Christopher Sykes brought out a hefty, authorized biography; Waugh's diaries, letters and essays were collected in three massive volumes; his major novels were reissued in an attractive, uniform edition; and, for a few weeks at least, the television miniseries of Brideshead Revisited made English Catholics of us all. Usually, of course, a writer's death leads to a downswing in critical opinion...
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