The senior Jerome died when the author was only 13 and he had to go to work. Jerome’s family struggled with poverty after his father made some bad investments in the local mining industry. Jerome had a brother who died at an early age, but he also had two sisters in Paulina and Bladina. His father was an iron monger and lay preacher, who also did architecture. His name was originally James Clapp Jerome as well, but he would later change his middle name to Klapka after the the exiled Hungarian general György Klapka. His dad really liked the name Jerome, apparently. His father would later rename himself to Jerome Clapp Jerome which lead to Jerome’s unique name. He was born as the fourth child of Marquerite Jones and Jerome Clapp. Jerome was born in 1859 in Caldmore, Walsall, England and he passed away in 1927 in Northampton. He is best known as the author of Three Men in a Boat, a comic travelogue, and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Jerome was an English author who wrote many popular works in his time.
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