WRITER

W. Somerset Maugham

1874 - 1965

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William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Somerset Maugham has received more than 3,318,955 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). W. Somerset Maugham is the 555th most popular writer (down from 382nd in 2019), the 642nd most popular biography from France (down from 447th in 2019) and the 98th most popular French Writer.

W. Somerset Maugham is most famous for his short stories and his novel The Razor's Edge.

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  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 555 out of 7,302. Before him are Patrick Süskind, Mo Yan, Robert Burns, Klaus Mann, Paul Lafargue, and Arthur Koestler. After him are Francisco de Quevedo, Mikael Agricola, George Eliot, Dino Buzzati, Ivan Bunin, and Georges Perec.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 22. Before him are Carl Bosch, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sunjong of Korea, Nikolai Berdyaev, G. K. Chesterton, and Talaat Pasha. After him are August Krogh, Karl Kraus, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ernest Shackleton, Konstantin Päts, and Nicholas Roerich. Among people deceased in 1965, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 17. Before him are Eli Cohen, Louise Mountbatten, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Maxime Weygand, Hermann Staudinger, and T. S. Eliot. After him are Paul Hermann Müller, Helena Rubinstein, Nat King Cole, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Dorothea Lange.

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In France

Among people born in France, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 642 out of 6,770. Before him are Albert Fert (1938), Chlodomer (495), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Hugues de Payens (1074), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), and Emma of Normandy (985). After him are Ariovistus (-101), François Guizot (1787), Louis Blériot (1872), Maurice Chevalier (1888), Hugh the Great (898), and Ferdinand Cheval (1836).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, W. Somerset Maugham ranks 98. Before him are Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Paul Claudel (1868), Gaston Leroux (1868), and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741). After him are Georges Perec (1936), Ausonius (310), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Madame de La Fayette (1634), and Pierre Loti (1850).

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