A V Laider Author:Max Beerbohm A.V. Laider is one of the great stories in the original collection of short stories called Seven Men. Seven Men was written by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in Britain in 1919 by Heinemann and in the United States in 1920 by Alfred A. Knopf, and has been described as a "masterpiece?. A.V. Laider is... more » a tale about prevision.« less