The young Maugham turned inward, developed a stammer, and fled to books.
Mitchell didn't speak until he was five, and at seven developed a stammer.
The youngest of five children, Musharaf says he developed a stammer very suddenly when he was five.
I was so vicious when I was pregnant with our son that my husband developed a stammer.
When Welch developed a stammer, which he still has, his mother told him it was because "no one's tongue could keep up with a brain like yours".
Carol often sobbed in her room, and James, a sensitive boy who felt bad for the sock whose brother got lost in the dryer, developed a stammer and a tic that made his head shiver uncontrollably.
Mr. Seidler, whose family emigrated from England to the United States shortly before World War II, developed a stammer as a toddler that would remain until he was a teenager in high school on Long Island.
He studied at Bombay Scottish School, where he developed a stammer due to corporal punishments such as caning.
Larkin's early childhood was in some respects unusual: he was educated at home until the age of eight by his mother and sister, neither friends nor relatives ever visited the family home, and he developed a stammer.
