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Max Beerbohm

Died in 1956

Max Beerbohm was born in London in 1872, the half-brother of a famous actor and theatre manager. He made his name at Oxford as a caricaturist and essayist, published a first collection of essays in 1896, and in 1898 succeeded, as drama critic of a periodical, the playwright George Bernard Shaw. After his marriage in 1910, he settled in Rapallo, in Liguria, for the rest of his life, except during the two wars, which he spent in England. He died in 1956.

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