He wrote essays on Goethe and Chekov in Points of View, and his essay on th
He wrote essays on Goethe and Chekov in Points of View, and his essay on the painter Zurbaran can be found in his The Vagrant Mood.  In his middle years he began openly living with his lover Gerald Haxton and began writing short stories like "Trio," "Encore" and "Rain."  He had more success with plays like East of Suez and Lady Frederick, but his current fame rests on novels.  FTP, name this writer who created autobiographical characters like Willie Ashenden and Philip Carey in such novels as Cakes and Ale and Of Human Bondage.
He wrote essays on Goethe and Chekov in Points of View, and his essay on the painter Zurbaran can be found in his The Vagrant Mood.  
William Somerset Maugham