His granddaughter's book, "The Life and Times of Franz Alexander: From Budapest to California," was published a few months ago by Karnac Press, a London-based publishing house devoted to books about psychoanalysis.
Though monstrous, her appearances in her granddaughter's book provide its funniest moments, including her cringeworthy friendship with the Queen Mother, and practical jokes (she liked to turn up to parties wearing a comedy nose in the shape of a penis and with a fart machine hidden under her dress).
The couple, on their way to visit their great-granddaughter, quickly booked a hotel after the airline refused to pay for accommodations.
A conflict of our times: the food writer Nigella Lawson has a Twitter spat with Evelyn Waugh's granddaughter over a book sold on eBay.
He is a maker of dreams who spirits the heroine Sophie (named after his granddaughter - the book is dedicated to her, too) away when she spies him at his nightly work and together they save the world's children from "human bean -eating giants.
After some hesitation, his granddaughter added to the book order as well: the third and fourth books in the "Twilight" series, by Stephenie Meyer, and a copy of Miley Cyrus's upcoming memoir.
Ms. Red Shirt's mother, Winyan Isnala (which means Lone Woman), was the granddaughter of the new book's title.
Another, "A Figure of Speech" (Delacorte, 1973), also about a grandfather and granddaughter, was a National Book Award finalist in 1974.
"It used to be long and slim, with beautiful fingers, a refined hand," she wrote in "A Book for Granddaughters," an unpublished account of this period, which she sent to me.
Who knows if Ernest Hemingway would chuckle or grimace at hearing his great-granddaughter describe his books as "kind of depressing".
But I wouldn't let any granddaughter of mine read that book".
