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The English novelist, travel writer and biographer Evelyn Waugh (1903-66). He was born in London and studied at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford. He was one of the 20th century’s greatest comic novelists whose books include Scoop (1938), Brideshead Revisited (1945), Men at Arms (1952) and Officers and Gentlemen (1955). His Diaries were published in 1976. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)