How to Pronounce W. Somerset Maugham
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Jan 25, 1874 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 16 Dec 1965 (aged 91)
English playwright, novelist, short story writer
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About W. Somerset Maugham
- William Somerset Maugham, CH ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W.
- Somerset Maugham, was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer.
- He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and he was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold.
- He did not want to become a lawyer like other men in his family, so he trained and qualified as a physician.
- The initial run of his first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that he gave up medicine to write full-time. During the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service, for which he worked in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917.
- During and after the war, he travelled in India, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and those experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.
