W. Somerset Maugham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

W. Somerset Maugham

English playwright, novelist, short story writer

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1874

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 16-Dec-1965

Profession: prose, screenwriter, playwright, dramaturgy, physician writer, literary critic, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

William Somerset Maugham, CH ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W.
Somerset Maugham, was an English 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.Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and he was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold.
He did not want to become a lawyer like other men in his family, so he trained and qualified as a physician.
The initial run of his first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that he 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, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and those experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.



Alternative names	Carl Van Vetchen; Carl van Vechten
Description	American writer and photographer
Date of birth/death	17 June 1880	21 December 1964
Location of birth/death	Cedar Rapids	New York City
Authority control	: Q312851 VIAF: 5056030 ISNI: 0000 0001 1558 7789 ULAN: 500058409 LCCN: n78095475 NLA: 35576955 WorldCat