Jerome K. Jerome

Died in 1927

Jerome K. Jerome was born in 1859 and grew up in the east of London after the ruin of his father, who had lost his money in coal mines. His father died when he was thirteen; he left school at fourteen for a job as a railway clerk, and lost his mother at sixteen. A travelling actor for three years, then a schoolteacher and clerk, he afterwards lived by his pen, edited magazines and wrote for the theatre. During the war, at over fifty-five, he drove an ambulance on the French front. He died in 1927.

In the catalogue 1

NovelThree Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome · 1889LiteraturePublic domain