Max Beerbohm

About Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm is a short fiction writer, essayist, critic, and caricaturist that has been called one of the leading satirists of the Edwardian era in England. Growing up, he was a sophisticated kid that drank champagne when he turned ten and regularly read “Punch” magazine. While he was a student at the Surrey-based Charterhouse School, he used to amuse classmates and masters with prose parodies and irreverent caricatures. At eighteen years old, he enrolled at Oxford’s Merton Colee, where he fast gained a reputation as a dandy and aesthete. He used to be a good-humored and modest boy and he believes it was the college that made him insufferable. His reputation soon spread to London and he was soon in the literary circles of Oscar Wilde. In 1894 he was a contributor to “A Defense of Cosmetic