In addition, such works as “The Letter” and “Rain” established Maugham as a gifted short story writer. Among his masterpieces are Of Human Bondage, The Painted Veil, The Razor’s Edge, and The Moon and Sixpence. During his lifetime, Maugham would marry and divorce, be sent to Russia as a spy, and entertain such celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Winston Churchill, Noel Coward, the Aga Khan, and Ian Fleming at his Riviera mansion. After his adored parents died, he grew up in a miserable vicarage and suffered from an embarrassing handicap.
His own life, however, was more tragic, shocking, and fascinating than any novel. William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) studied medicine, but the quick success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), started him on his lifelong literary career, during which he would become one of the most popular English authors since Dickens.
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