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 translation of the Katha Upanishad titles a novel by this author about a WWI pilot’s search for enlightenment in India. (15[2])The missionary (15[1])Davidson fails to moralize (15[1])a prostitute in Pago Pago named (*) Sadie Thompson (10[1])in one of many stories this author set on the South Sea, “Rain.” (-5[1])This author created a stockbroker who abandons his family (-5[1])to become an artist in Tahiti (10[3])in a novel (10[2])retelling (-5[1])the life (10[1])of Paul (10[1])Gauguin. (10[1])For 10 points, name (10[1])this British novelist of The Moon and Sixpence, who wrote about the club-footed orphan Philip Carey in (10[1])Of Human (10[1])Bondage. (10[2])■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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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