Somerset'ssunrise; Literary biography. The Economist (US) | March 6, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

IN THE four decades since William Somerset Maugham died in 1965 at the age of 91 he has passed a writer's cruellest test: people still read him. And he continues to be written about. Jeffrey Meyers quotes a remark by Maugham's friend Christopher Isherwood that Maugham reminded him of an old Gladstone bag covered with labels: "God knows what is inside." Mr Meyers's biography is a careful search of that bag. Delving into its depths he has found much new material about Maugham's medical training and his spy work, and he shows how these experiences conditioned both his ...

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