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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030831
Author:Jerome K Jerome

Jerome K Jerome was born on 2 May 1859 in Walsall, Staffordshire, the son of a lay preacher. By the age of 15 he had lost both his parents and took employment as a railway clerk, supplementing his income with acting. His plays and books brought him acclaim and in 1892 he became joint editor of `The Idler'. He went on to publish his own weekly, `To- day'. Besides writing, Jerome's other love was the river, and he combined the two passions in his comical magazine series and subsequent book, `Three Men in a Boat'. He died in 1927.

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