Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.
Books in order of publication:
Written works
The Works of Max Beerbohm, with a Bibliography by John Lane (1896)
A Defence of Cosmetics (1896)
The Happy Hypocrite (1897)
More (1899)
Yet Again (1909)
Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story (1911)
A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm (1912)
Seven Men (1919; enlarged edition as Seven Men and Two Others, 1950)
Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art (1920, ed. Max Beerbohm)
And Even Now (1920)
A Peep into the Past (1923)
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Caricatures by ″Quiz″ [Powys Evans] With an Introductory Note by Mr. Max Beerbohm (1923)
Around Theatres (1924)
A Variety of Things (1928)
The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill (1928)
Lytton Strachey (1943) Rede Lecture
Mainly on the Air (1946; enlarged edition 1957)
The Incomparable Max: A Collection of Writings of Sir Max Beerbohm (1962)
Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies (1963, ed. J. G. Riewald)
Letters to Reggie Turner (1964, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis)
More Theatres, 1898–1903 (1969, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis)
Selected Prose (1970, ed. by Lord David Cecil)
Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters (1975, eds Mary M. Lago and Karl Beckson)
Letters of Max Beerbohm: 1892–1956 (1988, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis)
Last Theatres, 1904-1910 (1970, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis)
A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces (1972)
Max Beerbohm and “The Mirror of the Past” (1982, ed. Lawrence Danson)
Collected Verse (1994, ed. J. G. Riewald)
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