biography
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Jacobs, W(illiam) W(ymark)
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| lived:
| (1863–1943)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer, born in London, UK. He was a post-office official (1883–99), and began writing humorous yarns of seafarers ashore such as Many Cargoes (1896), The Skipper's Wooing (1897) and Deep Waters (1919). He also wrote macabre tales, such as his best-known story, The Monkey's Paw (1902). |
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