![]() ![]() ![]() But his distinctly bleak autobiography Will This Do? (1991) casts a cold light on those early years, epitomised by the moment when father removed son's banana - a rare delicacy at the end of the war - from his plate and ate it. Bron barely saw his father until he was five, and even thereafter Evelyn boasted with chilling jocosity that he saw his children "once a day for 10, I hope awe-inspiring, minutes".Īfter his father's death in 1966, Bron became his champion and continued many of his feuds. Auberon Alexander - always Bron to those who knew him and to many who didn't - was born just as the war broke out, and just as his father was setting off on his quixotic and in the end bitterly thwarted search for military redemption. He was the second child and first son of Evelyn and Laura Waugh. ![]() Philip Larkin joked about "my projected series, Talentless Sons of Famous Fathers - Waugh, Amis, Fuller.", and for Polly Toynbee, "Poor Bron is but a Randolph to a Winston." In fact, Auberon Waugh could be called many things, but not talentless, as he showed once he shook off that shadow. This provided an obvious weapon for Auberon's enemies. He spent much of his life trying to escape from the shadow of his father, the greatest English novelist of his age. Apart from health, his background shaped his career in one other respect. ![]()
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