His best-known works are Of Human Bondage (1915) and Moon and Sixpence (1919).ĭuring World War I, Maugham assisted in the ambulance corps and in intelligence work. One of the highest-paid writers of the early to mid-twentieth century, Maugham wrote fiction, memoir, travelogues, and plays.
The popular and controversial novel launched Maugham's impressive writing career. He published his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, in 1897 the book depicted the life and death of Liza Kent, a working-class woman. Thomas' Hospital, and apprenticed as a midwife in London's Lambeth slum area. He was raised by his aunt and uncle, and bullied by children at school. William Somerset Maugham was an English author and playwright.īorn in the British Embassy in Paris, France (legally considered British soil), Maugham endured a traumatic childhood, orphaned at ten when his mother died from tuberculosis and his father died from cancer.
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