The Resume

(October 28, 1903-April 10, 1966)
Wrote 'Decline and Fall (1928),' 'Vile Bodies (1930),' 'A Handful of Dust (1934),' 'Scoop (1938),' 'Brideshead Revisited (1945)' and 'The Loved One (1948)'

Why he might be annoying:

He was a man named Evelyn.
He pronounced his name 'EE-velyn.'
His first wife was also named Evelyn.
He once tried to drown himself in the sea, but was stung by a jellyfish and chickened out.
He was a racist.
He was a rabid cultural and religious conservative.

Why he might not be annoying:

His books make fun of snobs and idiots.
His characters are memorable and hilarious.
'Brideshead Revisited' was made into a popular TV miniseries.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003] (Ranked: 45)
• Cartoonists
• I am an Anti-Semite
• I Attempted Suicide and Screwed it Up
• I Converted to Catholicism
• I Died Going to the Bathroom
• I Died in 1966 (Ranked: 62)
• I Have Insomnia
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Male Pipe Smokers
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 34)
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 75)
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 80)
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 34)
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 72)
• People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People [1982]
• Profiles 10501-10750 (Ranked: 10650)
• Redheads - Female [M-Z]
• Redheads - Male
• Satirists and Wits
• Sourpuss Faces
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 1]

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 25 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 27 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 25 Votes: 64.00% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 68.42% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 70.59% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 23 Votes: 69.57% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 44 Votes: 59.09% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 45 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 84 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 169 Votes: 54.44% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 214 Votes: 61.21% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 260 Votes: 68.46% Annoying