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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