biography
| name: |
Jerome, Jerome K(lapka)
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pronunciation:
[jerohm]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1927)
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| biography:
| Humorous writer, novelist, and playwright, born in Walsall, Staffordshire, C England, UK. Brought up in London, he was successively a clerk, schoolmaster, reporter, actor, and journalist, then became joint editor of The Idler (1892) and started his own weekly, To-Day. His novel Three Men in a Boat (1889) became a humorous classic. |
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