Evelyn Waugh and His "Most Offensive Work"
NYPL Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Division. October 28 marks the birthday of Evelyn Waugh: novelist, journalist, biographer, professional curmudgeon. He was a versatile author whose work in one genre often informed another. His reportage in Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea) influenced his travelogue Waugh in Abyssinia and his novel Scoop. (Its original full title was Scoop: A Novel About Journal…