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JAMA. 1968;204(1):65-66.

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W. Somerset Maugham, judged by some critics to be the most successful of the coterie of 20th century novelists trained in medicine (sharing honors with A. J. Cronin and A. C. Doyle), was born in Paris, the son of a solicitor to the British Embassy. His paternal ancestors were Celts who had emigrated from Ireland to the Lake district of England and had become gentleman farmers and government officials. Maugham's mother also was well born, but was afflicted with tuberculosis and died when her son was only eight.¹ Following his mother's death, he was taken out of the French school he was attending and was tutored in English. After two years of instruction, his father died and he came for several years under the charge of an uncle, the Reverend Henry Maugham, vicar of All Saints' Church in Whitstable, Kent. During the interminably long interlude at the vicarage, he . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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