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"The Great William Somerset Maugham Seen Through the Eyes of a Friend—"
W. Somerset Maugham, Barbara Back (middle row, second from right/left), Gerald Haxton, & Friendsfrom Hastings's The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
This post concerns an article written by W. Somerset Maugham's closest female friend, Barbara Back, about him. Before talking about it, I am going to give some background about its writer.
Barbara Back is not an unfamiliar name to those who become interested in Maugham's life. However, I haven't come across much about her. Fro…
"W. Somerset Maugham" in Seven Friends by Louis Marlow
Marlow, Louis. Seven Friends. London: The Richards Press, 1953.This post is about a most fascinating book by Louis Marlow, whom I know next to nothing, except that he has written a chapter on W. Somerset Maugham.
Louis Marlow's real name is Louis Wilkinson (1881–1966), as observed, died just a year after Maugham; an Englishman who lectured widely in the United States.
A writer himself, he also wrote about other writer friends that he knew.
What is most attractive about Marlow is that…