Somerset Maugham (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeffrey Meyers
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1874-1965
- Setting: England, Germany, Spain, Malaya, Samoa, Tahiti, Russia, Cap Ferrat, New York, and South Carolina
- Principal Characters: William Somerset Maugham, Syrie Barnardo Wellcome, Liza Maugham, Frederic Herbert Maugham, Robin Maugham, Gerald Haxton, Alan Searle
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Novelists, England or English people, Fame, Drama or dramatists, Wealth, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: New York, Spain, England, South Carolina, Germany, Russia, Tahiti, Samoa, Malaya
Twenty-five years after Ted Morgan's definitive 1980 biography, and in three hundred fewer pages, literary biographer Jeffrey Meyers has retold the story of W. Somerset Maugham's life. Meyers, whose Somerset Maugham: A Life is his forty-third book, told Publishers Weekly in 1995 that, “Speed is a big thing for me because it lets me keep up a tremendous interest. I never get tired of what I do. I try to communicate this excitement to the reader. I write every day. I keep the pace up and never let it drop.” What one can anticipate in Meyers's work is exhaustive research,...
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