Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1859, and grew up in poverty in the East End of London after his father's business failed. He left school at fourteen and worked as a railway clerk, a schoolmaster, an actor, a journalist and a solicitor's clerk. His first books, On the Stage and Off and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, drew on these experiences. In 1888 he married Georgina Marris, and after their honeymoon on the Thames he wrote Three Men in a Boat (1889), based on boating trips with his friends George Wingrave and Carl Hentschel. Critics called it vulgar, but it sold enormously and has never been out of print. Jerome co-founded and edited the magazine The Idler, which published Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle and others, and he wrote many plays, including The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1908). A sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, followed in 1900. During the First World War, too old to enlist, he served as an ambulance driver in France. He died in Northampton in 1927.

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