Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HOBHOUSE (Rosa Waugh) Poems...
Married. Alec Waugh, 34, English author (That American Woman, Hot Countries, latest: Thirteen Such Years); and one Joan Chirnside, Australian; in London...
THIRTEEN SUCH YEARS-Alec Waugh-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Anecdotal picture of post-War days, by the brother of Evelyn Waugh...
...Author Waugh calls his imaginary African country "Azania," an independent island about the size of Madagascar but much farther north. Emperor of Azania is Seth, black as shiny coal but bursting with progressive ideas he has swallowed. As soon as he is firmly settled on his rickety throne he proceeds to regurgitate them in rapid succession. Pat to his purpose comes Basil Seal, outrageous example of London's outrageous young wastrels. Seth makes Basil head of the Bureau of Modernization, which before long practically takes over the government of the country. In off hours Basil has fun with Prudence...
...Author used to be spoken of as "Alec Waugh's brother''; now it is the other way about. His publisher father, manager of London's Chapman & Hall, came in handy soon after Author Waugh left Oxford, has published most of his bright young son's books. At 24 (he is now 29) Author Waugh married another Evelyn, daughter of Lady Burghclere, was divorced two years later. He loves to travel, once gave it as his opinion that only two good travel books had ever been written: one of them The Acts of the Apostles...