W. Somerset Maugham: W. Somerset Maugham. Writer: Quartet. Popular British novelist, playwright, short-story writer and the highest-paid author in the world in the 1930s, Somerset Maugham graduated in 1897 from St. Thomas' Medical School and qualified as a doctor, but abandoned medicine after the success of his first novels and plays. During World War I he worked as a secret agent and in 1928 settled in Cap Ferrat in France, from where he...
Known For: Quartet (Writer), The Painted Veil (Writer), The Letter (Writer), The Star and the Story (Writer)