Maugham

American  

[mawm] / mɔm /

noun

1. W(illiam) Somerset 1874–1965, English novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer.

---

Maugham British  

/ ˈmɔːm /

noun

1. W ( illiam ) Somerset. 1874–1965, English writer. His works include the novels Of Human Bondage (1915) and Cakes and Ale (1930), short stories, and comedies

---

Example Sentences

As the most lavish hotel East of Suez, it hosted literary heroes like Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham.

From The Wall Street Journal

She also starred in the 1989 Broadway revival of “The Circle,” W. Somerset Maugham’s romantic comedy about love, marriage and fidelity, opposite Rex Harrison and Stewart Granger.

From Seattle Times

“Maugham,” his 1980 biography of the British playwright and novelist W. Somerset Maugham drew the special admiration of critics.

From New York Times

The novel’s electric prose established Mr. Amis as an important young English writer and won the Somerset Maugham Award for writers under 30.

From New York Times

An early American review of “Chocolat” compared its “intertwined themes of colonialism and forbidden love” to one of Somerset Maugham’s steamy Malaysian melodramas.

From New York Times