AceHistoryDesk – He achieved national celebrity as a playwright; by 1908 he had four plays running simultaneously in London’s West End. After 1933 he concentrated on novels and short stories.

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His popularity provoked adverse reactions from highbrow critics, and many belittled him as merely competent. More recent assessments generally rank Of Human Bondage as a masterpiece, and his short stories are held in high critical regard.

Maugham’s plain prose became known for its lucidity, but his reliance on clichés attracted adverse critical commentary.

During World War I Maugham worked for the British Secret Service, later drawing on his experiences for stories published in the 1920s.

He married Syrie Wellcome in 1917, and they had a daughter, Liza.

However, his principal partner was Gerald Haxton; after Haxton’s death, Alan Searle became Maugham’s secretary and companion. Maugham gave up writing novels after World War II and died in 1965.

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