Though this was the most momentous act of his life, it did not immediately obviously influence his fiction. J., was received into the Roman Catholic Church in the autumn of 1930. Soon after the dissolution of his first marriage, to Evelyn Gardener ("She-Evelyn," to his "He-Evelyn"), Waugh, following instruction by Fr. This popular farce was followed in 1930 by the even more popular, though darker, Vile Bodies, which succeeded in making Waugh a celebrity, in the UK at least, and a writer much in demand in the popular press. This was followed that same year by his first, very successful, novel Decline and Fall, which drew, among other things, on Waugh's stint as a schoolmaster. After trying his hand at everything from teaching to carpentry, Waugh followed up a short essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with his first published book, a 1928 biography of Pre-Raphaelite painter/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Educated at Lancing and at Hertford College, Oxford, Waugh came down with an undistinguished third in History. Born in Hampstead in 1903, Waugh was the second son of Arthur Waugh, a prominent man of letters, and younger brother to Alec Waugh, the novelist.
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