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.

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 ...

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' ...

He Picks up the Oddments and Remainders of Life Ever since I read Of Human Bondage I have wanted to meet W. Somerset Maugham. Here is a man with bitter truth in his work, with brilliance in his ...

One of them was W. Somerset Maugham, who was both greatly admired and hugely successful throughout much of his long career, first as a playwright and then as the author of novels and short stories ...

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 ...

“Honolulu,” British author William Somerset Maugham’s (1874-1965) tale of sorcery, is written with such authenticity that one has the impression that Maugham based it on a firsthand account he’d heard ...

Very few people read William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) anymore. But in the lands that used to form the British Empire he was immensely popular, from the 1930s right through to the 1980s, and he has ...

"Stories about culture wars, feminism, a woman's bodily autonomy, the Equal Rights Amendment, financial empowerment, infidelity, the other woman/side piece, sisterhood and the modern woman certainly ...