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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings (view source)
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As the last sentence of the last chapter reminds us, Maugham was ''the great teller of tales''. Whether future generations will rediscover him and whether his reputation as a writer will ever recover remains to be seen, but in the meantime, this biography is a fitting memorial to a man who was often his own worst enemy.
For other biographies of near-contemporary authors, you might like to read [[Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin]], or [[The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle by Russell Miller]].
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