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W. Somerset Maugham
Writing
25 Jan 1874
† 15 Dec 1965
Paris, France
Biography
William Somerset Maugham CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practised medicine, and became a full-time writer. His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, but it was as a playw...
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William Somerset Maugham, Somerset Maugham
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