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3	William Somerset Maugham[[note]]Pronounced "Mawm"[[/note]] (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was a British novelist, short story writer, and playwright. He was highly successful throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The novelist [[Creator/GoreVidal Gore Vidal]] wrote that "It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely ''there''." In addition, Maugham left behind some pithy sayings.
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5	Most famous today for the semi-autobiographical ComingOfAgeStory ''Literature/OfHumanBondage''. His short story and play ''Film/TheLetter'' were twice adapted into Hollywood dramas. His short story "Miss Thompson" was adapted into a play called ''Rain'', a film called ''Film/SadieThompson'', and another film also called ''Rain''. His later novel ''Film/TheRazorsEdge'' was made into a film in 1946 and again in 1984.
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7	In 1919, he wrote a play called ''Home and Beauty,'' a RomanticComedy loosely based on the NarrativePoem ''Literature/EnochArden'' by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson. This play was renamed ''Film/TooManyHusbands'' for its New York run and was made into a film in 1940 under that title. It later had a {{Musical}} remake as ''Three for the Show.''
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9	He was also an early master in the genre of modern SpyFiction, with much of his Ashenden stories [[BasedOnATrueStory inspired by things that happened to him]] in his brief time as a spy in the First World War. His influence was particularly noticeable on Creator/IanFleming. Supposedly, he wrote more Ashenden stories, but no less than UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill told him to burn them for being too dangerous to recount. Notably, Ashenden also appears in Maugham's straight [[LitFic literary]] novels.
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