Biography of william somerset maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
English playwright ground author (–)
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William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (25 January – 16 December ) was an English novelist, short story writer and playwright. He was born at the British Embassy in Paris. He was the highest paid author of the s.[1]
Maugham trained as a medical doctor at St. Thomas's hospital's medical school, London, but then decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote many works including such well-known ones as Liza of Lambeth (), The Magician (), Of Human Bondage (), The Moon and Sixpence (), Cakes and Ale () and The Razor's Edge ().
Maugham died on 16 December in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France from pneumonia at the age of
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“It has amused me to tell stories and I have told a great many”
Born in the British Embassy in Paris, William Somerset Maugham was orphaned at a young age and sent to live with his emotionally cold Uncle, the Rev. Henry Maugham in Whitstable, Kent. His uncertain English and French accent, (he had grown up with French as his first language) and short stature led to a miserable time at King’s School, Canterbury, which in turn led to a marked stammer, and he subsequently developed an acerbic wit [which he carried on into his writing] as a defence mechanism.
Not wanting to follow the rest of his family into practicing law, he studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital, graduating in Living and working in Lambeth gave him the material for his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, in which he depicted the life and death of a factory girl at the turn of the century in graphic detail. The book’s success encouraged Maugham to turn to writing as a full time career and he wrote several novels, short stories and plays in quick succession. In his play Lady Frederick became a huge success and by he had four plays running simultaneously in London. He began writing what was to become his