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W. Somerset Maugham

1874 - 1965

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William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practised medicine, and became a full-time writer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. W. Somerset Maugham is the 108th most popular writer (up from 554th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from France (up from 642nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Writer.

W. Somerset Maugham is most famous for his short stories and his novel The Razor's Edge.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 108 out of 7,302. Before him are Alexandre Dumas fils, Miyamoto Musashi, Arthur Rimbaud, François Rabelais, Jack London, and Knut Hamsun. After him are Stephen King, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marquis de Sade, José Saramago, Václav Havel, and Anatole France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 4. Before him are Winston Churchill, Guglielmo Marconi, and Robert Frost. After him are Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Houdini, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, and Sunjong of Korea. Among people deceased in 1965, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 6. Before him are Winston Churchill, T. S. Eliot, Le Corbusier, Malcolm X, and Edward Victor Appleton. After him are Syngman Rhee, Albert Schweitzer, Farouk of Egypt, Martin Buber, Eli Cohen, and Hermann Staudinger.

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In France

Among people born in France, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 104 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Louis Philippe I (1773), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), Louis XII of France (1462), and Henry II of France (1519). After him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Louis the Pious (778), Pope Urban V (1310), Pope Clement VI (1291), Madame de Pompadour (1721), and Henri Poincaré (1854).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 23. Before him are Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), and François Rabelais (1494). After him are Marquis de Sade (1740), Anatole France (1844), André Gide (1869), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), and François Villon (1431).

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