Today in History: 25 January 1874: English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories, William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in a family of lawyers. He was schooled in England and went to a German university. He went to a medical school and qualified to become a doctor in 1897, but never practiced medicine. His first novel Liza of L…
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