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Alexander Waugh was the Chief Opera Critic of the Mail on Sunday (1990-91) and of The Evening Standard (1991-1996). He is the grandson of Evelyn Waugh and eldest son of Auberon Waugh. His books on music include Classical Music: A New Way of Listening (1995) and Opera: A New Way of Listening (1996). He reviews non-fiction books regularly for the British press and has contributed cartoons to The Literary Review and The Daily Telegraph. His books Time (1999) and God (2002) are written in a type of prose that uses irony and wit to impart condensed information. His biography Fathers and Sons (2004) is a portrait of the male relations across five generations in his own family. It was made into 90-minute BBC documentary film in 2005. In 2006 he presented the BBC television documentary The Piano – A Love Affair. His theatre piece Bon Voyage! (co-written with his brother Nathaniel Waugh) won the 12th Vivian Ellis Award for Best New Musical. The Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. ... Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a London tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas, and is technically a local paper, although it carries considerable influence. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939 – January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist. ... It isnt The Literary Review but The Critical Review. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ...

Books

• Classical Music: A New Way of Listening (De Agostini, 1995; Macmillan, 1995)
• Opera: A New Way of Listening (De Agostini, 1996)
• Time: From Microseconds to Millennia; A Search for the Right Time (Headline 1999; Carroll and Graf 2000)
• God (Headline 2002; St Martin’s Press 2004)
• Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (Headline 2004: Nan Talese 2007)

External links

• Hodder Headline author page
• The Daily Telegraph, July 17, 1998, "Light Reading on the 6.15: Alexander Waugh interviewed by Eliza Charlton"
• The Waughs - Fathers and Sons
• The Daily Telegraph, September 1, 2004, "Fathers, Sons, Feuds and Myths: Alexander Waugh interviewed by Sam Leith"