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Maugham, W. Somerset
William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When Maugham was eight years old, his mother died of tuberculosis, two years later his father died of cancer and the boy was sent to live with his uncle, the Vicar of Whitstable in Kent. Maugham suffered from a serious stammer, he was shy and avoided speaking in public; unlike his...
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Izner, Claude
Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a bouquiniste, who owned a bookstall on the banks of the Seine and lived with his family in a cheap boarding house on the outskirts of Paris. Liliane, born in 1940, has had a career as a film producer and scriptwriter who changed track as the the French film industry became ...
