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also became a hit record. This success enabled him to combine his two passions, travel and writing, and many of his later works, such as Bangkok: The Story of a City (1970), reflect this. Although Evelyn Waugh rather sniffily summed up his older brother thus: ‘He wrote many books, each worse than the last’. Alec Waugh continued to enjoy modest success well into the 1970s, by which time he was living in the USA. Despite the sentiments expressed in The Loom of Youth, there is no evidence that Waugh was homosexual and, indeed, he was married three times and father of three children. In 1932, Wyndham Lewis wrote Doom of Youth, in which he suggested that Waugh’s interest in schoolboys stemmed from his sexuality. Waugh promptly sued and the matter was settled out of court. Alec Waugh, author of over 50 books, died in Tampa, Florida, on 3rd September 1981.
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