The Judgment Books — E.F. Benson

E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng. -- died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian society.