Meyers - Somerset maugham: a life
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[A]s Maugham ages he comes to life in Meyerss pages . Maughams story is eminently entertaining, a weird mixture of Horatio Alger and Noel Coward.
The New York Times Book Review
[R]ightly emphasizes the magnitude of Maughams contribution to 20th-century literature . Meyers devotes a great deal of attention to the works themselves, discussing many of them in considerable detail.
The Christian Science Monitor
Somerset Maugham: A Life has many of the virtues of Maughams own writing: readability, wit, concision, and brio.
The New York Sun
Meyerss biography makes it possible to imagine, over time, that Maugham will continue to be read and appreciated for a respectable body of novels, stories and plays, and receive the credit that eluded him during his own long career.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An absorbing and readable biography.
Booklist
[After] a careful search [Meyers] has found much new material about Maughams medical training and his spy work, and he shows how these experiences conditioned both his personality and his writing.
The Economist
In reminding us of the many fine stage plays and novels Maugham produced in the course of his long career, [Meyers] may well introduce a new generation of readers to a writer who has now been giving enjoyment for more than 100 years.
San Francisco Chronicle
Meyers has accomplished the Herculean task of researching Maughams life . It is also a portrait of a driven and conflicted man with great talent and great fears. Meyers gives us Maugham, warts and all, and Maugham, Im sure, would approve.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Excellent . [W]ell-written, entertaining, and of admirable brevity . Meyers paints a convincing picture of the development of [Maughams] complex character.
The New Criterion
Meyers continues his fine work with the controversial and secretive life of Somerset Maugham.
Charleston Post and Courier
Jeffrey Meyers
Somerset Maugham: A Life
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.
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Maugham reminds me of an old Gladstone bag covered with labels. God only knows what is inside.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
Yemassee and Haxtons Death, 19421944
Robert Maugham (grandfather) (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Robert Ormond Maugham (father) (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Edith Maugham (mother) (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Rev. Henry Macdonald Maugham (uncle), c. 1880 (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Barbara von Scheidlin Maugham (aunt) (Diana Marr-Johnson)
The Vicarage, Whitstable (Kings School, Canterbury, Archives)
High Street, Whitstable, 1890 (Kings School, Canterbury, Archives)
Entrance to Kings School (Valerie Meyers)
Maugham as a schoolboy, 1884 (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Maugham (first row, third from right) behind Leonard Ashenden, Kings School, 1885 (Kings School, Canterbury, Archives)
Maugham (in chair, second from right) wearing scholars gown, Kings School, 1889 (King School, Canterbury, Archives)
St. Thomass Hospital from across the Thames, 1939 (St. Thomass Hospital, London)
Ward in St. Thomass Hospital, 1890s (St. Thomass Hospital, London)
John Ellingham Brooks
Adney Walter Payne
Maugham, author of Liza of Lambeth, 1897 (Diana Marr-Johnson)
The Jester, portrait of Maugham by Gerald Kelly, 1911 (Loren Rothschild)
Sue Jones, portrait by Gerald Kelly
6 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair (Valerie Meyers)
2 Wyndham Place, Marylebone (Valerie Meyers)
43 Bryanston Square, Marylebone (Valerie Meyers)
Maugham and Syrie, 1920s
Gerald Haxton (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Leslie Howard and Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage, 1934
Sasha Kropotkin, portrait by Gerald Kelly (Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland)
Boris Savinkov before the Soviet tribunal, 1925
Jos Ferrer and Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson, 1953
Maugham at Frederic Maughams country house in Gloucestershire, C. 1923 (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Frederic Maugham as lord chancellor, 1938 (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Kenneth Clark (Estate of Kenneth Clark, Margaret Hanbury, 27 Walcot Square, London SE114UB)
Barbara Back
Hugh Walpole
Christopher Isherwood, early 1950s (Don Bachardy)
Glenway Wescott, Bill Miller and Maugham, early 1940s
Maugham and Robin Maugham, 1945 (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Maugham smoking cigarette and leaning on a desk, c. 1944 (Loren Rothschild)
Maugham with Bert Alanson, and Liza and Mabel Alanson, Yosemite National Park, 1945 (Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries)
Alan Searle with Maugham, early 1950S (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Gerald Kelly painting Maugham Portrait of Maugham by Gerald Kelly, 1949 (Loren Rothschild)
Jacob Epstein sculpting Maugham, 1951 (Diana Marr-Johnson)
Graham Sutherland, portrait of Maugham, 1949 (Loren Rothschild)
Maugham seated on a sofa, with Mediterranean in background, 1947
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