text: This author created a character who is given a check signed "Charlie Chaplin" when he asks Colonel Blount for money so that he can marry Nina.
full_question: This author created a character who is given a check signed "Charlie Chaplin" when he asks Colonel Blount for money so that he can marry Nina. In another novel by this author, Teddy tends to a silver fox farm built at Hetton Abbey, which Brenda had left to marry Jock Grant-Menzies. In that novel by this author, a man has Dickens stories read to him by his prisoner in the Brazilian jungle, Tony Last. This author of Vile Bodies wrote a novel in which Julia divorces Rex Mottram but does not end up marrying her teddy bear-carrying brother Sebastian's Oxford classmate, Charles Ryder. For 10 points, name this British author of A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited.
first_sentence: This author created a character who is given a check signed "Charlie Chaplin" when he asks Colonel Blount for money so that he can marry Nina.
raw_answer: Evelyn ["EEV-lyn"] Waugh