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...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham, 56, married (to Syrie, daugher of the late Dr. Barnardo, famed founder of homes for waifs), studied to be a doctor, instead traveled, took notes, observed, wrote. Medium-sized, mustached, with fat stomach, square jaw, Author Maugham lives at Cap Ferrat, France, but travels whenever, wherever, he wishes. During the War he served in the intelligence service, British Army; was stationed in Russia, where bad, meagre food made him ill. Critic Hannen Swaffer once wrote Author Maugham asking him how to pronounce his name. Replied Maugham: "My name rhymes with waugham, as in 'a waugham...