Question: Did Wilbur Smith and Max Beerbohm both write novels?

Context articles: Max Beerbohm
The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
A Christmas Garland
Wilbur Smith
River God
The Works of Max Beerbohm
Constance Beerbohm
Rossetti and His Circle
A Defence of Cosmetics
N. John Hall

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist under the signature Max.
 He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist.
 He was the drama critic for the "Saturday Review" from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy.
 In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts.
 Among his best-known works is his only novel, "Zuleika Dobson", published in 1911.
 His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.
The Leopard Hunts in Darkness is a novel by Wilbur Smith set in the early days of Zimbabwe's independence and is the fourth in Wilbur Smith's series about the Ballantyne family of Rhodesia.
A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm is a collection of seventeen parodies written by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm.
 It was first published in the United Kingdom in October 1912 by Heinemann and in 1918 in the United States by Dutton & Co. of New York.
Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families.
River God is a novel by author Wilbur Smith.
 It tells the story of the talented eunuch slave Taita, his life in Egypt, the flight of Taita along with the Egyptian populace from the Hyksos invasion, and their eventual return.
 The novel can be grouped together with Wilbur Smith's other books ("The Seventh Scroll", "Warlock", "The Quest", "Desert God" and 'Pharaoh') on Ancient Egypt.
 It was first published in 1994.
The Works of Max Beerbohm was the first book published by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm.
 It was published in 1896 when Beerbohm was aged 24.
Constance Mary Beerbohm (1856–8 January 1939), was the oldest daughter of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm (1811–92), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.
 He married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper; and the couple had four children.
 Constance Beerbohm's brother was the renowned actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree; another brother was the engineer, author and explorer Julius Beerbohm; a younger half-brother was the caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm.
Rossetti and His Circle is a book of twenty-three caricatures by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm.
 Published in 1922 by William Heinemann, the drawings were Beerbohm's humorous imaginings concerning the life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his fellow Pre-Raphaelites, the period, as he put it, "just before oneself."
 The book is now considered one of Beerbohm's masterpieces.
A Defence of Cosmetics is an essay by caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm and published in the first edition of "The Yellow Book" in April 1894.
 Aged 21 when the essay was published, it established his reputation.
 It later appeared in his first book, "The Works of Max Beerbohm" (1896) as The Pervasion of Rouge.
N. John Hall (born 1933) is an American biographer and scholar best known for his books on Anthony Trollope and Max Beerbohm.
 In addition, Hall has published many articles, editions, introductions, and book chapters on both Trollope and Beerbohm.
 In his later career, Hall has written a memoir and two novels.