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William Somerset Maugham [n 2] CH (/ m ɔː m / MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) [n 1] 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.
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors.Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. Born in the British Embassy in Paris, where his father worked, Maugham was an orphan by the age of ten. [ 1 ]
W. Somerset Maugham – a series of 26 adaptations for BBC television, 1969–1970: [38] A Casual Affair; Norman Bird as Arthur Low, Gwen Cherrell as Joan Low, James Maxwell as Jack Almond, Hildegard Neil as Lady Kastellan, Richard Vernon as Lord Kastellan, Esmond Knight as Sir Montague Trafford. Director: Waris Hussein. The Back of Beyond
Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, [2] then a working-class district of London.
The Somerset Maugham Award (2021) Lamorna Juliet Ash (born 27 November 1994) is a British writer and education specialist. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town , won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021.
Home and Beauty, known in the US as Too Many Husbands, is a farce in three acts by W. Somerset Maugham. Written in 1919, it was first seen in August of that year at the Globe Theatre, Atlantic City, and subsequently at the Booth Theatre, New York, under its American title. The British premiere was in August 1919 at the Playhouse Theatre in London.
"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as "Miss Thompson" in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set, [1] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf.