Autographs of Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham CH (/mɔːm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practised medicine, and became a full-time writer. His first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a study of life in the slums, attracted attention, but it was as a playwright that he first achieved national celebrity. By 1908 he had four plays running at once in the West End of London. He wrote his 32nd and last play in 1933, after which he abandoned the theatre and concentrated on novels and short stories. More about Somerset Maugham

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Current items with a signature of Somerset Maugham

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	W. Somerset Maugham Autograph Display AFTAL UACC Registered Dealer	£150.00

Maugham's novels after Liza of Lambeth include Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Painted Veil (1925), Cakes and Ale (1930) and The Razor's Edge (1944). His short stories were published in collections such as The Casuarina Tree (1926) and The Mixture as Before (1940); many of them have been adapted for radio, cinema and television. His great popularity and prodigious sales provoked adverse reactions from highbrow critics, many of whom sought to belittle him as merely competent. More recent assessments generally rank Of Human Bondage – a book with a large autobiographical element – as a masterpiece, and his short stories are widely held in high critical regard. Maugham's plain prose style became known for its lucidity, but his reliance on clichés attracted adverse critical comment.

During the First World War Maugham worked for the British Secret Service, later drawing on his experiences for stories published in the 1920s. Although primarily homosexual, he attempted to conform to some extent with the norms of his day. After a three-year affair with Syrie Wellcome which produced their daughter, Liza, they married in 1917. The marriage lasted for twelve years, but before, during and after it, Maugham's principal partner was a younger man, Gerald Haxton. Together they made extended visits to Asia, the South Seas and other destinations; Maugham gathered material for his fiction wherever they went. They lived together in the French Riviera, where Maugham entertained lavishly. After Haxton's death in 1944, Alan Searle became Maugham's secretary-companion for the rest of the author's life. Maugham gave up writing novels shortly after the Second World War, and his last years were marred by senility. He died at the age of 91. Read even more about Somerset Maugham at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Somerset Maugham

The most expensive item with a signature of Somerset Maugham (SIGNED, 1 of 750, 1944, 1st Ed, W SOMERSET MAUGHAM, THE RAZOR'S EDGE, LIMITED ED) was sold in March 2024 for £773.37 while the cheapest item (W SOMERSET MAUGHAM Signed Letter - Author / Writer / Lierature) found a new owner for £0.99 in May 2015. The month with the most items sold (3) was December 2015 with an average selling price of £75.00 for an autographed item of Somerset Maugham. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2023 with £205.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was April 2015. In average, an autographed item from Somerset Maugham is worth £44.00.

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	c1932 Hand-Signed Letter from W. Somerset Maugham. Villa Mauresque, Cap Ferrat	£53.00
	DIANA MAUGHAM ,NOVELIST ,NIECE OF SOMERSET MAUGHAM SIGNED HAND WRITTEN NOTE	£17.00
	LITERATURE, W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, HAND SIGNED WHITE 9 x 11.5 CM CARD, 1954	£28.00
	SIGNED 1954 W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM AUTOGRAPH ENGLISH AUTHOR INK PORTRAIT PROFILE	£205.00
	Somerset Maugham Autograph - English Author	£34.11
	Somerset Maugham Autograph - English Author	£37.00
	Somerset Maugham Autograph - English Author	£24.89
	Somerset Maugham Signed Income Tax Return - English Author	£73.00
	Somerset Maugham Signed Letter On His 91st Birthday - English Author	£71.85
	Somerset Maugham Signed Quotation - English Author	£122.00
	SOMERSET MAUGHAM, Author, Typed Letter Signed 1961	£120.00
	W SOMERSET MAUGHAM English playwright & novelist Signed Page on Own Notepaper	£51.00
	W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Author Genuine Authentic Vintage Signed 16x12 Display UACC	£75.00
	W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM RARE HAND SIGNED 1951 TYPED LETTER FROM PLAYWRIGHT NOVELIST	£35.70
	WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM - NOVELIST & PLAYWRIGHT - EXCELLENT SIGNED DISPLAY	£75.00