Gerald Haxton

Gerald Haxton

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

He and Maugham met at the outbreak of World War I when they both began serving from 1914 as part of the Red Cross ambulance unit in Flanders, France.

Read more about Gerald Haxton:  Secrecy and Arrest, Deportation, Later Years and Death