![]() Yet even a gentle schoolteacher in Saskatchewan like Mr. Though his treatment of Maugham’s homosexuality is more explicit than anything previously published, it always emphasizes the nasty procuring side of his homosexual life. Morgan’s antipathy to the man is most damaging. Finally, he is demonstrably more Successful than his biographer, who is Married, Mature, Monogamous, and Good.Īlthough Mr. Despite the degenerate’s gifts, he is a Bad Person worse, he is Immature even worse, he is Promiscuous. ![]() Goldman, the master of that expanding cottage industry, Bioporn), a contemptuous adversarial style seems to be the current…norm. Morgan and other biographers of known sexual degenerates (or merely suspected-Lennon, Presley, by one A. Our lives are conditioned by outer circumstances but our death is our own. I cannot understand why a biographer, having undertaken to give the world details of a famous man’s life, should hesitate, as so often happens, to give details of his death…. Doubtless, he was influenced by the young Maugham’s remark: Ted Morgan, concentrated morbidly on the incontinences and confusions of a mad old age while scanting works and bright days. Somerset Maugham in order to redress, nicely, I think, some recent studies of the man who was probably our century’s most popular novelist as well as the most successful of Edwardian playwrights. Robert Calder has written a biography of W. ![]()
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