Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar school, his family suffered from poverty at times, as did he as a young man trying to earn a living in various occupations. In his twenties, he was able to publish some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was spent on a boat on the Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat soon afterwards. He continued to write fiction, non-fiction and plays over the next few decades, though never with the same level of success.
Novels
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Diary of a Pilgrimage
Novel Notes
Three Men on the Bummel
Paul Kelver
Tea-table Talk
Tommy and Co
They and I
All Roads Lead to Calvary
Anthony John
Collections
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Told After Supper
John Ingerfield
Sketches in Lavender, Blue, and Green
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
The Observations of Henry
The Angel and the Author and Others