My Favourite Writer

I'm fond of reading. My favourite writer is William Somerset
Maugham and I would like to tell about his biography.

William Somerset Maugham was born in 1874 and spent his childhood
in Paris in the family of a British diplomat. Having lost his parents at an
early age, he went to live in England with his uncle, who was a clergyman. He
was educated at King's school in Canterbury studied painting in Paris, went to
Heidelbury University in Germany and spent six years at St.Thomas Hospital in
England studying to be a doctor. He was an unsatisfactory medical student for
his heart wasn't in medicine. He wanted, he had always wanted to be a writer
and in the evening after his tea, he wrote and read.

In 1897 he wrote a novel called "Liza of Lambeth", sent
it to a publisher and it was accepted. It was something of a success. So
William Somerset Maugham decided to abandon his medical profession and he did
it with relief. The next ten years were very hard on him. He learned the
terrible difficulties of making a living by writing. But he survived. He became
a famous writer. He never regretted the five years he had spent at the hospital.
They taught him pretty well all he knew about human nature.

The novel "The moon and sixpence" (1919) is based on the
life of the artist Paul Gauguin was an immediate success. Maugham went to
Tahiti and lived in Gauguin's hut while writing the book. His fame as a short
story writer began with "The Trembling of a leaf". Since then he
wrote many collections of books, essays and criticism. Many of his books and
stories came out of his extensive travels in the East. His autobiographical
books "The summing up" and "A writer's Notebook" are
remarkable for both style and sincerity. His books have been reprinted many
times.

In 1927 William Somerset Maugham settled in the South of France
and lived there until his death in 1965.

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