Maugham, William Somerset
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET mom, 1874 1965, English writer, b. Paris. He was noted as an expert storyteller and a...World War I spy in Russia are reflected in Ashenden: Or, the British Agent (1928), a work that strongly influenced such later writers as Graham Greene , Ian Fleming , and John le Carre . Maughams...