In making the transition from secret agent to writer, Maugham carried on in the tradition of such classic writers as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and Daniel Defoe to such contemporary writers as Graham Greene, John le Carré, John Dickson Carr, Alec Waugh and Ted Allbeury. Maugham's skill...
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Born:1/25/1874 Birthplace:Paris, France Although he was most well known as an author, W. Somerset Maugham had a varied professional life that included obstetrics and a stint as a secret agent during World War I. The success of his first novel,Liza of Lambeth(1897), persuaded him to quit...
In 1914, Maugham served first with a Red Cross unit in France, then as a secret agent in Geneva, and finally in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg,) attempting to prevent the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. In World War II, he served as a secret agent for the British. ...
The weeks that followed were taken up with meticulous planning. Maugham was introduced to key contacts who would be able to facilitate his journey across a country that was rapidly descending into chaos. Among those charged with helping him was Emanuel Voska, an American secret agent who was to...
In 1916 Maugham was invited by Sir John Wallinger, head of Britain's Military Intelligence (MI6) to act as a secret service agent. Maugham agreed and acted as a link between MI6 in London and its agents working in Europe. The following year he became involved in events in Russia. ...
Later, he worked as a secret agent for Britain and gathered inf 13、ormation in Geneva. He has also been sent on a diplomatic mission to try to persuade the Russian goverment retreat from the war. And this period of time was written into some of his works.,In 1916, he traveled to ...
•DuringWorldWar1,heworkedtosavethewoundedsoildersatthefrontline,especiallythefiringline,inBelgium.Later,heworkedasasecretagentforBritainandgatheredinformationinGeneva.HehasalsobeensentonadiplomaticmissiontotrytopersuadetheRussiangovermentretreatfromthewar.Andthisperiodoftimewaswrittenintosomeofhisworks.•In1916,...
him financial security. During World War I he worked as a secret agent. After the war he resumed his interrupted travels and, in 1928, bought a villa on Cape Ferrat in the south of France, which became his permanent home. His reputation as a novelist rests primarily on four books: Of ...