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Stephen Butler Leacock

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Stephen Butler Leacock 1869–1944, Canadian economist and humorist, b. England, grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.A., 1891), Univ. of Chicago (Ph.D., 1903). Head of the department of political science and economics (1908–36) at McGill Univ., he wrote standard works in his own field, in Canadian history, and in biography. He is best remembered, however, for his many volumes of humorous essays and stories, many of them genial satires, including Literary Lapses (1910), Nonsense Novels (1911), Behind the Beyond (1913), Frenzied Fiction (1918), Winnowed Wisdom (1926), My Discovery of the West (1937), and How to Write (1942). Last Leaves (1945) are posthumously published essays.

Bibliography: See his autobiographical fragment, The Boy I Left behind Me (1946).

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Leacock, Stephen Butler

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Leacock, Stephen Butler (1869–1944) Canadian humorist, b. Britain. His Literary Lapses (1910) proved popular for their gentle satire and love of the absurd. He also wrote Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) and an incomplete autobiography, The Boy I Left Behind Me, published in 1946.

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Leacock, Stephen (Butler)

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Leacock, Stephen (Butler) (1869–1944), Canadian political economist and humorist. He wrote many volumes of collected humorous essays and stories, including Literary Lapses (1910) and Nonsense Novels (1911).

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