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John Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont, generally known as Max Egremont, is a British biographer and novelist.
Egremont’s first book, The Cousins: The Friendship, Opinions and Activities of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and George Wyndham, was published in 1977 and won the Yorkshire Post Prize for the best first book of that year. His next work was Balfour: A Life of Arthur James Balfour, published in 1980.
He then wrote four novels, The Ladies’ Man (1983), Dear Shadows (1986), Painted Lives (1989) and Second Spring (1993). His biography of Major General Sir Edward Spears, Under Two Flags, was published in 1997 and was short listed for the Westminster Medal for Military History. He was appointed to be the official biographer of Siegfried Sassoon by Sassoon’s son George. Egremont’s Siegfried Sassoon came out in 2005 and was short listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
In 2011 he published Forgotten Land, Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia. In 2014, he published Some Desperate Glory, the First World War the Poets Knew. In 2017 Egremont was joint author with Frances Carey of Käthe Kollwitz, Portrait of the Artist, the catalogue that accompanied a travelling exhibition of Kollwitz’s work. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2001. Egremont’s short book The Connel Guide to World War 1 was published in 2017.
