- Born
- DiedJune 14, 1927 · Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK (following a stroke and cerebral hemorrhage)
- Birth nameJerome Klapka Jerome
- Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1859, son of an unsuccessful ironmonger. Raised in London, and educated at Marylebone Grammar School. Started work as railway clerk at fourteen, and later worked as schoolmaster, actor and journalist. Two volumes of humorous essays preceded "Three Men In A Boat" (1889), which saw immediate and enormous success. This enabled him to become one of the founders of the humorous magazine "The Idler", which featured work by Bret Harte and Mark Twain, amongst others. Wrote a number of plays in a similar style to his friend J.M. Barrie. The most memorable of these is probably "The Passing Of The Third Floor Back".
- IMDb mini biography by: David Ferstat <dferstat@iinet.net.au>
- SpouseGeorgina Henrietta Stanley(1888 - June 14, 1927) (his death)
- Orphaned at the age of 15, he started working as a railway clerk and did spare-time acting and writing. He became a well-known playwright and novelist.
- Was an ambulance driver for the French Red Cross in WWI.
- His father, Jerome Clapp Jerome, was a lay preacher.
- He was named Klapka after a Hungarian army general who was staying with the Jerome family when he was born.
- Is buried at Ewelme, Oxfordshire.
- It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- If you are foolish enough to be content, don't let on, but grumble with the rest.
- I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me.
- Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
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