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1) William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer.
2) He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.
3) Both Maugham's parents died before he was 10, and the orphaned boy was raised by a paternal uncle, who was emotionally cold.
4) He did not want to become a lawyer like other men in his family, so he trained and qualified as a physician.
5) His first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time.
6) 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.
7) He worked for the service in Switzerland and Russia before the October Revolution of 1917 in the Russian Empire.
8) He drew from those experiences in his later short stories and novels.
9) Maugham did not believe in God or an afterlife. He considered notions of future punishment or reward to be outrageous.
10) In 1947 Maugham instituted the Somerset Maugham Award , awarded to the best British writer or writers under the age of 35 for a work of fiction published in the past year.
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