Although he came to the United States frequently and for several decades lived part of each year at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, Mr. Waugh was not particularly famous in this country, except for the 1956 Island in the Sun. The colorful story of love, murder and political intrigue on the imaginary Caribbean island of Santa Maria was a book-club selection, was condensed in The Reader's Digest and was sold to the movies for a film that starred James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Harry Belafonte, Joan Collins and Dorothy Dandridge.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Although he came to the United States frequently and for several decades lived part of each year at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, Mr. Waugh was not particularly famous in this country, except for the 1956 Island in the Sun. The colorful story of love, murder and political intrigue on the imaginary Caribbean island of Santa Maria was a book-club selection, was condensed in The Reader's Digest and was sold to the movies for a film that starred James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Harry Belafonte, Joan Collins and Dorothy Dandridge." in the context of "Edwin McDowell, (September 4, 1981), "Alec Waugh, Author of 'Island in the Sun'", The New York Times" to mean that wisdom is timeless.