biography
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Leacock, Stephen (Butler)
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| (1869–1944)
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| biography:
| Writer and humorist, born in Swanmore, Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at Toronto, Canada, becoming head of the economics department at McGill University, Montreal (1908). He wrote several books on his subject, including The Economic Prosperity of the British Empire (1931), but it is as a humorist that he became widely known. Among his popular works are Literary Lapses (1910), Winsome Winnie (1920), and The Garden of Folly (1924). The Boy I Left Behind Me, an unfinished autobiography, was published in 1946. Also in 1946, the Leacock Society decided to present an annual silver medal to the best book of humour published in Canada, known as The Stephen Leacock Medal. |
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