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A profile of the late-Victorian era literary master discusses such topics as his struggles with sexual repression and artistic expression, his education and medical training, his roles as a secret agent and war propagandist, and his relationship with his long-time lover, Gerald Haxton. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Meyers's portrait of the long-lived Maugham and his tumultuous time is both nuanced and concise, a biography without a wasted word. -- The Washington Post Book World <br> Excellent. . . . [W]ell-written, entertaining, and of admirable brevity. . . . Meyers paints a convincing picture of the development of [Maugham's] complex character. --The New Criterion <br> Maugham is the perfect subject for a biography. . . . Meyers knows how to select his details . . . and arrange them into a well-paced narrative. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer <br> Meyers . . . mounts a persuasive defense of Maugham's art, keenly mapping his influence on V.S. Naipaul, George Orwell, and Paul Theroux. --The New Yorker<br>

Meyers's portrait of the long-lived Maugham and his tumultuous time is both nuanced and concise, a biography without a wasted word. - The Washington Post Book World Excellent. . . . [W]ell-written, entertaining, and of admirable brevity. . . . Meyers paints a convincing picture of the development of [Maugham's] complex character. --The New Criterion Maugham is the perfect subject for a biography. . . . Meyers knows how to select his details . . . and arrange them into a well-paced narrative. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer Meyers . . . mounts a persuasive defense of Maugham's art, keenly mapping his influence on V.S. Naipaul, George Orwell, and Paul Theroux. -The New Yorker Meyers s portrait of the long-lived Maugham and his tumultuous time is both nuanced and concise, a biography without a wasted word. The Washington Post Book World Excellent. . . . [W]ell-written, entertaining, and of admirable brevity. . . . Meyers paints a convincing picture of the development of [Maugham s] complex character. --The New Criterion Maugham is the perfect subject for a biography. . . . Meyers knows how to select his details . . . and arrange them into a well-paced narrative. --The Philadelphia Inquirer Meyers . . . mounts a persuasive defense of Maugham s art, keenly mapping his influence on V.S. Naipaul, George Orwell, and Paul Theroux. The New Yorker -Meyers's portrait of the long-lived Maugham and his tumultuous time is both nuanced and concise, a biography without a wasted word.- --The Washington Post Book World -Excellent. . . . [W]ell-written, entertaining, and of admirable brevity. . . . Meyers paints a convincing picture of the development of [Maugham's] complex character.- --The New Criterion -Maugham is the perfect subject for a biography. . . . Meyers knows how to select his details . . . and arrange them into a well-paced narrative.- --The Philadelphia Inquirer -Meyers . . . mounts a persuasive defense of Maugham's art, keenly mapping his influence on V.S. Naipaul, George Orwell, and Paul Theroux.- --The New Yorker Meyers's portrait of the long-lived Maugham and his tumultuous time is both nuanced and concise, a biography without a wasted word. --The Washington Post Book World Excellent. . . . [W]ell-written, entertaining, and of admirable brevity. . . . Meyers paints a convincing picture of the development of [Maugham's] complex character. --The New Criterion Maugham is the perfect subject for a biography. . . . Meyers knows how to select his details . . . and arrange them into a well-paced narrative. --The Philadelphia Inquirer Meyers . . . mounts a persuasive defense of Maugham's art, keenly mapping his influence on V.S. Naipaul, George Orwell, and Paul Theroux. --The New Yorker

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Jeffrey Meyers grew up in New York City, graduated from the University of Michigan and received his doctorate from Berkeley. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of forty-three books, among them biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meyers lives with his wife in Berkeley, California. From the Hardcover edition.

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