New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. "At last here is the definitive biography of W. Somerset Maugham, one of the most remarkable and secretive literary figures of the twentieth century. Ted Morgan has penetrated the barriers which for years prevented the creation of a full portrait of this paradoxical writer- barriers set up by Maugham himself, who asked friends to destroy his correspondence, and who instructed..... More