Jerome Klapka Jerome
(1859-1927), Novelist and playwrightSitter in 32 portraits
Jerome left school at fourteen and initially worked as a clerk for a railway company, and then as an actor. He gave up the stage in favour of writing and journalism, publishing his first book On the Stage - and Off in 1885. His most famous book Three Men in a Boat, 1889, has remained a popular classic, and has been filmed three times. He wrote several plays and worked as an editor on The Idler and To-Day magazines. During the First World War he served as an ambulance driver with the French army (he was too old for the British Army). He wrote his autobiography My Life and Times in 1926.
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