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W. Somerset Maugham
| Full Name: |
William
Somerset
Maugham |
| Born: |
January 26, 1874
British Embassy, Paris, France |
| Died: |
December 16, 1965
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France |
| Occupation: |
Writer, Playwright |
| Nationality: |
British |
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Biography
William Somerset Maugham, was a British 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.
After both his parents died before he was 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a physician. The initial run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham 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 and Southeast Asia; these experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.
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