httD://hompy.sayclub.com/dol004 About the Author William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965),an English writer of short stories,novels and plays, was born in Paris,where his father was counselor at the British Embassy.Both of his parents died before he was ten,and he went back to England to live with his father's brother,a clergyman.He was educated at King's School,Canterbury,and later in Germany at Heidelberg University.He studied medicine,but after receiving his degree at St. 的 Thomas's Hospital in London,devoted the rest of his life to literature. About the Author William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), an English writer of short stories, novels and plays, was born in Paris, where his father was counselor at the British Embassy. Both of his parents died before he was ten, and he went back to England to live with his father’s brother, a clergyman. He was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and later in Germany at Heidelberg University. He studied medicine, but after receiving his degree at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, devoted the rest of his life to literature