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Jerome K. Jerome



         


Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.

He was born in Walsall (now in the West Midlands, but then in Staffordshire), where there is now a museum in his honour, and brought up in poverty in London.

Other works include Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, a book of essays.

The most famous quotation from Three Men in a Boat is

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
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