- Alfred Hitchcock was a great admirer of Maugham's work. In his famous interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock claimed that Maugham was one of the few fiction writers he enjoyed reading for leisure.
- Born in the same year as Winston Churchill and died in the same year as Winston Churchill.
- He was made a Companion of Honour (CH) in the 1954 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to literature.
- He was born at the British Embassy in Paris, where his father Robert was a solicitor. His mother Edith died of tuberculosis when he was eight. His father died of cancer three years later. He was sent to live with his uncle, the Vicar of Whitstable, Kent, and his wife.
- Uncle of writer Robin Maugham.
- Mentioned in the song "One Night in Bangkok" from the musical "Chess", a hit song for Murray Head in 1984.
- Great-grandfather of Derek Paravicini.
- Biography/bibliography in: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, volume 127, pages 280-288. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004.
- Biography in: Current Biography Yearbook 1963, Pages 263-265. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1964.
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