Gerald Haxton

Frederick Gerald Haxton (1892 – November 7, 1944), a native of San Francisco, was the long term secretary and lover of novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham.[1]

He and Maugham met at the outbreak of World War I when they both began serving as part of a Red Cross ambulance unit in French Flanders.[1]

  1. ^ a b Hastings, Selina. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, New York: Random House, 2010