Three Men In A Boat

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Best known as the author of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, on 2 May, 1859. Youngest of four children, he spent his childhood in relative poverty. He left his school at the age of fourteen before working variously as a clerk, a hack journalist, an actor and a schoolteacher. His first book, On the Stage and Off was published in 1885, and this was followed by numerous plays, books and magazine articles. In 1927, one year after writing his autobiography, My Life and Times, he was made a Freeman of the Borough of Walsall. He died later the same year and was buried in Ewelme in Oxfordshire.