Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
Other works append the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat, and several additional novels.
Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, whilst he was nimble to attend grammar school, his intimates suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a youthful man exasperating to earn a blooming in various occupations. In his twenties he was competent to reveal some work, and skill followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames, leading him to start writing Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to write fiction, nonfiction and plays higher than the next-door few decades, though never following the similar level of success.
He died in 1927 and his body was cremated.