Author Biography
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought a house in Cap Ferrat, France, which was to become a meeting place for a number of writers, artists and politicians. He died in 1965. SELINA HASTINGS is the author of acclaimed biographies of Somerset Maugham, Nancy Mitford, and Rosamond Lehmann, and her biography of Evelyn Waugh won the Marsh Biography Award.