Word: alroy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works is purely autobiographical, but he seems to have come closer than almost any other writer to basing all specifics in his work on personal experience. Morgan shows that many of Maugham's works consist almost entirely of events or characters lifted directly from his life: like his character Alroy Kear, for example, based on Hugh Walpole, Maugham's friend until the publication of Cakes and Ale--so thinly disguised, as well as unflattering, that those involved sued Maugham for libel...
...live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes...