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While serving as an ambulance driver during WWI, he finished his novel "Of Human Bondage" |
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2007-11-08 |
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He based "The Moon and Sixpence" on the life of Gauguin, but his character was British |
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2005-07-19 |
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Although this "Of Human Bondage" author earned a medical degree, he never practiced medicine |
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1996-12-13 |
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He was born in 1874 in Paris, where his father, Robert Ormond Maugham. worked at the British embassy |
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1993-10-05 |
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Though scenes in "Of Human Bondage" indicate he wasn't happy at school, he's buried at his |
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1993-03-26 |
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He took the title of his novel, "The Razor's Edge", from the Katha Upanishad, a Hindu text |
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1992-09-16 |
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"Cakes and Ale" |
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1990-12-24 |
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Herbert Marshall played him in "The Moon & Sixpence" & "The Razor's Edge" |
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1987-03-05 |
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