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| | glbtq >> literature >> Maugham, William Somerset |
 | | He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, which later received his books, some manuscripts, an endowment, and his ashes; at Heidelberg University, where he did not take a degree; and St. Thomas's Hospital, London. |
 | | In 1897, he received his medical MRCS and LRCP, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), a realistic depiction of conditions in the London slums and the inadequacy of medical attention, turned him from medicine to literature. |
 | | Except for Liza, Maugham's early novels are largely forgotten. |
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