Jerome K. Jerome Biography
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Jerome Klapka
Jerome is no great name in literature. He is known as the author of some plays
and humorous writings. He was born at Walsall, Stratfordshire on 2nd May,
1859. His father was an amateur preacher, whereas his mother was a cultivated
woman.
Jerome had his
education at Marylebone Grammar School. His academic career was not sound. He
had also a lot of ups and downs in his career. He became by turns a railway
guard, reporter, school teacher and even an actor. In the First World War, he
also participated as an ambulance driver. Jerome confined to his friend George
Wingrave that he had 4 ambitions in life :
To edit a
successful journal.
To write a
successful play.
To write a successful book.
To become a Member of Parliament.
He could achieve,
of course not very successfully, all those expectations, except the last one.
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Jerome is found
not a great author, but a consistent one. His literary works are many and
varied. His first recognized writing ‘Three Men in a Boat’ was published in
1889. That was followed by ‘The Diary of a Pilgrimage ’, ‘Three Men on the
Bummel’ published between 1890 and 1900. His autobiographical novel ‘Paul
Kelver’ came out in 1902. Jerome’s successful plays came thereafter. The most
successful of those plays happened to be ‘The Passing of the Third Floor Back’
staged in 1908.
Jerome was a
successful journalist, too, as an editor and as a columnist. He was the chief
of the monthly magazine ‘The Idler’ founded in 1892. He edited also the weekly
‘Today’. He edited both these journals till 1898. His last literary work, a
sort of autobiography ‘My Life and Times’ was completed in 1926.
Jerome died on
14th June, 1927.
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