Auberon Waugh

Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939–January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist.

Literary career

Waugh wrote five novels before giving up writing fiction, partly in protest at the inadequate money authors received from public lending rights at libraries and partly because he knew he would always be compared unfavourably to his father. The five novels are:

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Fiction - Public lending right - Libraries

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• The Foxglove Saga (1960)
• Path of Dalliance (1963)
• Who Are The Violets Now? (1965)
• Consider the Lilies (1968)
• A Bed of Flowers (1972).

He also wrote a book about the Thorpe case, The Last Word. He made several programmes for ATV in the 1970s, and was interviewed by Anthony Howard in 1991 for the Thames TV documentary Waugh Memorial. From 1986 until his death he also edited the Literary Review magazine, where he organised awards for what he called "real" (i.e. rhyming) poetry, and also a Bad Sex Award for the worst description of sex in a novel.

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ATV - Anthony Howard - Thames TV - 1986 - Bad Sex Award

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