101. Knitting Circle Somerset Maugham W. somerset maugham W. somerset maugham. W. somerset maugham OVERVIEW, ALSO KNOWN AS somerset maugham. FRESHEST MOVIE 83% Of Human Bondage. MOST ROTTEN MOVIE 46% Up at the Villa. http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~stafflag/wsmaugham.html

The Knitting Circle: Literature Biography work bibliography W(illiam) Somerset Maugham Born 25th. January, 1874, in Paris, France; died 16th. December, 1965, in Nice. British novelist and playwright. Born in the British Embassy in Paris. He spoke French until he was orphaned at the age of eleven. He went to King's School Canterbury, England. He read philosophy and literature at Heidelberg, Germany. He is said to have had his first homosexual experience there with the aesthete John Ellingham Brooks. Somerset Maugham did not speak of his own homosexuality. The Oscar Wilde trials would have affected him like similar men of the age. He qualified as a surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, London, and had a year's medical practice in the London slums. On 26th. October, 1907 his comedy play Lady Frederick opened in London. By 1908 he had four of his plays running simultaneously in London. In 1914 he first served with the Red Cross in France. He fell in love with Gerald Haxton (1892-1944), a twenty-two-year old from San Francisco who was serving in the same ambulance unit in Flanders. Somerset Maugham's character Tony Paxton in Our Betters (1917) represents Gerald Haxton.

102. AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - W. Somerset Maugham W. somerset maugham Original Story , Up at the Villa (2000). Original Story , Christmas Holiday (1944). Original Story , The Moon and Sixpence (1942). http://www.amctv.com/person/detail?CID=141167-1-EST

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