W. Somerset Maugham died in 1965 at age 90, and it's taken half a century for one of the most famous and successful writers of the modern era to receive a fully balanced biography. Selina Hastings' ...

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 ...

During his long and event-filled life, W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) sold nearly 80 million books, wrote many hit plays that ran in the West End and on Broadway, and published dozens of memorable ...

The irony in the title of Selina Hastings' new biography of W. Somerset Maugham comes in the word "secret." Few writers made such copious, and obvious, use of his own life and experiences as did ...

Neither E.M. Forster (1879-1970) nor W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) lacks biographers. But in Forster's case, the recent availability of his diaries requires re-examination of the man and his work.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM: A Life. By Jeffrey Meyers. Knopf, 349 pp. $30. Who better to write a biography of the versatile, prolific and long-lived William Somerset Maugham than Jeffrey Meyers, himself an ...

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Random House, 640 pp., $35 Once upon a time a serious novelist could be very, very popular. Then something came unstuck, and now the appearance ...

“The Letter,” one of the most successful of W. Somerset Maugham’s stories, appeared in 1926 and is still popular today. It recounts the trial of Ethel Proudlock for the 1911 murder of her secret lover ...

William Somerset Maugham (pronounced ), CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and ...