Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.
Background
- Born in
- Hampshire
- Educated at
- Upper Canada CollegeStrathroy District Collegiate InstituteUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Toronto
- Awards
- 🏆 Lorne Pierce Medal🏆 Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction🏆 Person of National Historic Significance🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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Trending topics shown first"Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair wh…"
"The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence."
"Of course, Pupkin would never have thought of considering himself on an intellectual par with Mallory Tompkins. That would have been ridiculous. Mallory Tompkins had read all sorts of things and had h…"
"You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they …"
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Timeline
1869
Born
Birth1944
Died
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