Oh dear. Today Time magazine released a list of the 100 most-read female writers in American colleges. On the list were Jane Austen, J K Rowling, Kate L. Turabian and… Evelyn Waugh.
Yes, the Brideshead Revisted author made it onto the all-female list despite the fact that he was a man. In their defence, Waugh’s first name has caused confusion before, with his first wife also called Evelyn. The magazine have since issued a correction:
Mr S suspects this error is already a frontrunner for ‘2016 correction of the year’.
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