Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (Walsall, May 2, 1859 - Northampton, June 14, 1927) was an English writer of mostly comic stories.
Jerome was born in Walsall, in the former county of Staffordshire. He visited the Marylebone Grammar School, but started working as a clerk at the railroad at the age of 14. Later he became a teacher, actor and journalist. He married in 1888 and got a daughter. In 1893 he founded the weekly magazine 'Today'. During the First World War he served as an ambulance driver in France.
In 1888 he published his first book, On Stage and Off. A year later, he was successful with The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, and with his best-known book, Three Men in a Boat (1889), describing in detail the experiences of three friends who took a boat trip in an inescapable manner make on the thames This book was a sequel to Three Men on the Bummel, in which the same three friends take a trip through Germany. Select bibliography
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