William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 - 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although this part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
Somerset Maugham died in Nice, France on December 16, 1965.
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