Question

Who is Somerset Maugham

Answer 1

William Somerset Maugham CH (/mɔːm/MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelistand short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s

Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a physician. The initial run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham 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 and Southeast Asia; these experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.

Answer 2

W. Sormset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer.