Item 71: S.N. Behrman. "Conversations with Max" in The New Yorker (March 1960)

New York-based collectors such as the artist A.E. Gallatin (1881–1952) were among the first to take Beerbohm’s visual work seriously. Today, collectors such as James B. Sitrick continue to do so. Some of the most important biographical writings have been by New Yorkers, including N. John Hall and his predecessor, S.N. Behrman, whose reminiscences of Beerbohm were first serialized in multiple issues of The New Yorker magazine before being published as Portrait of Max in 1960. More recently, the critic and essayist Adam Gopnik profiled Beerbohm in 2015 in The New Yorker.