Forster read Sassoon's diary after showing Maurice to Sassoon.
Siegfried Sassoon's George Sherston Trilogy of semiautobiographic memoirs is noteworthy in that Sherston, unlike Sassoon, has no literary interests or ambitions.
George Sherston is the narrator of Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress.
Siegfried Sassoon structures Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man around his childhood adventures hunting and playing cricket.