A recent addition to Merrick Library's Biography section is "The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham" by Selma Hastings (Random House). Spotlighted in the July 25 New York Times Book Review, this volume is the first biography in over twenty years and by far the most intimate about one of the most prolific authors in English literature history. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) produced novels, short stories and plays during parts of eight consecutive decades beginning in the 1890s. By the 1930s Maugham was by all accounts the highest paid writer in the world.
"Being Julia," the 2004 motion picture for which Annette Bening won a Golden Globe for Best Actress, was based on Maugham's 1937 novella "Theatre." "The Painted Veil," a 2007 film drama starring Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, was adapted from Maugham's 1925 novel of the same name. Both films are in Merrick's DVD collection.
Merrick Library also has the following fiction by W. Somerset Maugham:
The Causarina Tree: Six Stories
Liza of Lambeth/Cakes and Ale/Theatre (in one volume)
The Moon and Sixpence
Of Human Bondage
The Painted Veil (in Paperback section)
The Razor's Edge
And these volumes about Maugham:
W. Somerset Maugham and His World - Frederic Raphael (biography)
W. Someset Maugham: A Study of the Short Fiction - Stanley Archer (criticism)
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