Question

This real-life author befriends society hostess Lesley Hamlyn, a confidant of Dr. Sun Yat Sen and murderess Ethel Proudlock, during a visit to Penang in Tan Twan Eng’s 2023 novel The House of Doors. A line from Christopher Isherwood’s (-5[1])translation of the Katha Upanishad titles a novel by this author about a World War I pilot’s search for enlightenment in India. The missionary Davidson fails to moralize a prostitute in Pago Pago named (-5[1])(*) Sadie Thompson in one of many stories this author (10[1])set on the South Sea, “Rain.” (10[1])This author (10[1])created a stockbroker (-5[1])who abandons his family to become an artist in (10[1])Tahiti in a novel retelling the life of Paul (10[1])Gauguin. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this British novelist of The Moon and Sixpence, who wrote (10[1])about (10[1])the (-5[1])club-footed orphan Philip Carey in Of Human Bondage. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[5])

ANSWER: W. Somerset Maugham [or William Somerset Maugham] (Proudlock is the subject of Maugham’s story “The Letter.” The novel is The Razor’s Edge.)
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