Jerome, Jerome Klapka

Jerome Klapka Jerome is best known for his humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), a humorous novel about a trip up the Thames.  Jerome was brought up in poverty in London, but the publication of Three Men in a Boat in 1889 made him instantly rich and famous.  Later in life, he was popular as a lecturer and was hired in preference to Kipling to be editor of The Idler in 1892.  During World War I, he volunteered as an ambulance driver. ;

English novelist, playwright, and actor Jerome K. Jerome is well-known as a humorist. He brought up sensitive issues regarding human emotions in the grab of humour and light-hearted narrations.;