biography
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Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
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nickname the Incomparable Max
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pronunciation:
[beerbohm]
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| lived:
| (1872–1956)
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| biography:
| Writer and caricaturist, born in London, UK, the half-brother of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He studied at Oxford, and published his first volume of essays under the title The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896). In 1910 he married US actress Florence Kahn (d.1951), and went to live, except during the two World Wars, in Rapallo, Italy. His caricatures were collected in various volumes beginning with Twenty-five Gentlemen (1896) and Poet's Corner (1904). His best-known work was his only novel, Zuleika Dobson (1911), a parody of Oxford undergraduate life. He was knighted in 1939. His ashes are buried in St Paul's Cathedral. |
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