He was innate within London, England, the immature half-stepbrother of actor & producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford; it was at school that he began writing. A select few of his function appeared in The Yellow Book (1894). He toured a United States while a young human, as a publicity man for his brother's theatrical company.

His number one book, A Works of Max Beerbohm, was published inside 1896. Within 1898 he followed George Bernard Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review, on whose staff he remained until 1910. From either 1935 onwards, he was an occasional if popular radio broadcaster.

His better known works come A Christmas Garland (1912), a parody of literary styles, and Seven Men (1919), which includes "Enoch Soames", a tale of the poet world health organization makes the treat by having the Devil to call for retired how else posterity may remember him, is likewise easily-known. Around 1911 he wrote Zuleika Dobson, his only novel. More works include The Happy Hypocrite (1897).

Beerbohm married actress Florence Kahn inside 1910. He was knighted within 1939. He died within Rapallo, Italy aged 83.

Books of Max Beerbohm's works

Written works

the Works of Max Beerbohm, sustaining a Bibliography by John Lane (1896) Additional (1899) Eventually Over again (1909) Zuleika Dobson; or even, An Oxford Romance (1911) The Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm (1912) Seven Men (1919) Herbert Beerbohm Tree: A select few Memories of Him & of His Art (1920, ed. by Max Beerbohm) & Potentially Nowadays (1920) a Peep into the Past (1923) As much as Theatres (1924) The Kind of Items (1928) A Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill (1928) Lytton Strachey: A Rede Lecture (1943) Chiefly on the Air (1946; hypertrophied edition 1957) The Uncomparable Max: A Collection of Writings of Sir Max Beerbohm" (1962) Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies (1963, ed. by J. G. Riewald) Letters to Reggie Turner (1964, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis) More Theatres, 1898–1903 (1969, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis) Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters (1975, ed. by Mary M. Lago and Karl Beckson) Letters of Max Beerbohm: 1892–1956 (1988, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis) Last Theatres (1970, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis) A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces (1972) Max Beerbohm and "A Mirror of the Past" (1982, ed. Lawrence Danson)

Collections of caricatures

Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen (1896) The Poets' Corner (1904) A Book of Caricatures (1907) Cartoons: The Second Childhood of John Bull (1911) Fifty Caricatures (1913) A Survey (1921) Rossetti and His Circle (1922) Things New and Old (1923) Observations (1925) Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet (1931) five drawings in a portfolio Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892–1899 (1958, ed. Rupert Hart-Davies and Allan Wade) Beerbohm's Literary Caricatures: From Homer to Huxley (1977, ed. J. G. Riewald) Max Beerbohm Caricatures (1997, ed. N. John Hall)

Secondary literature

Behrman, S. N. Portrait of Max. (1960) Cecil, David. Max: A Biography of Max Beerbohm. (1964, reprint 1985) Danson, Lawrence. Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing. (1989) Felstiner, John. The Lies of Art: Max Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature. (1973) Gallatin, A. H. Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm. (1952) Gallatin, A. H. Max Beerbohm: Bibliographical Notes. (1944) Grushow, Ira. The Imaginary Reminiscences of Max Beerbohm. (1984) Hall, N. John. Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life. (2002) Hart-Davis, Rupert. A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm. (1972) Lynch, Bohun. Max Beerbohm in Perspective. (1922) McElderderry, Bruce J. Max Beerbohm. (1971) Riewald, J. G. Sir Max Beerbohm, Man and Writer: A Critical Analysis with a Brief Life and Bibliography. (1953) Riewald, J. G. The Surprise of Excellence: Modern Essays of Max Beerbohm. (1974) Viscusi, Robert. Max Beerbohm, or the Dandy Dante: Rereading with Mirrors.'' (1986)