Leacock, Stephen Butler
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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