Alexander Waugh | |
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 Waugh in 2019 | |
| Born | Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh 30 December 1963 London, England |
| Died | 22 July 2024 (aged 60) Milverton, Somerset, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Spouse |
Eliza Chancellor (m. 1990) |
| Children | 3 |
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Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh (30 December 1963 – 22 July 2024) was an English writer, critic, and journalist. Among other books, he wrote Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family (2004), about five generations of his own family, and The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War (2008) about the Wittgenstein family. He was an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, which holds that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real author of the works of William Shakespeare.