Gerald haxton biography

Frederick Gerald Haxton (1892 – November 7, 1944), a native of San Francisco, was the.
Frederick Gerald Haxton, a native of San Francisco, was the long term secretary and lover of novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham.
Gerald Haxton was born in 1892, in San Francisco, United States.

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Starred Review. In Hastings's new biography, the facts of Maugham's life form a fascinating narrative because they are full of public incident and accomplishment, shadowed by privately known and whispered secrets, Hastings is the first biographer with permission to quote from Maugham's private papers, and from observations by his daughter, Liza, concerning the disastrous court case instigated by his homosexual companion, Alan Searle, when Maugham (1874–1965), in his dotage, threatened to disinherit Liza. The sordid details, fully disclosed for the first time, reveal the tragic ending to a life that had produced great wealth, exotic travel, and public acclaim. Although Maugham maintained that he was three quarters 'normal' and only a quarter 'queer,' '' Hastings demonstrates that Maugham's great love was his secretary and traveling companion, Gerald Haxton. She also documents the bitter relationship between a reluctantly married Maugham and his notorious wife, Syrie. In addition to his many homosexual love affairs, Hastings reveals Maugham's work as an espionage agent in two world w

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Somerset and All the Maughams

by Robin Maugham

Published by New American Library

Published 1966
History (biography)
274 pgs. • Find on Amazon.com • WorldCat

Reviewed by “G. D.”

July 07, 1966

Somerset And All The Maughams by Robin Maugham, N.Y.. New American Library, 1966.

Never a critically successful writer, but always a good writer, W. Somerset Maugham was truly the worldy-wise man of English letters. His death last year, at age 91, marks the end of an era for he was the last of the great storytellers.

His beloved nephew, Robin Maugham, is doubly fitted to record his life for he is both a writer and the author of several homosexual novels: Behind The Mirror, 1955; Line On Ginger, 1949; The Man With Two Shadows, 1958; The Servant, 1949, etc. Robin Maugham has cleverly used this book to tell the history of the entire Maugham family—and many had interesting lives—but for most readers the portrait of Uncle Willie will be the drawing card.

W. Somerset Maugham’s works are curiously devoid of his own homosexual orientation (his only novel to touch

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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage.

Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood spent with unloving relatives after the death of his parents, a trauma that resulted in shyness, a stammer, and for the rest of his life an urgent need for physical tenderness. Here, too, are his adult triumphs on the stage and page, works that allowed him a glittering social life in which he befriended and sometimes fell out with such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, D. H.