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Stephen Leacock (1869–1944)
Leacock, Stephen Butler. A Canadian humorist and political economist; born at Swanmoor, Hants, England, Dec. 30, 1869; died in 1944. After 1903 he taught political economy at McGill University, Montreal. Besides books connected with his professional work he published: ‘Literary Lapses’ (1910); ‘Nonsense Novels’ (1911); ‘Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town’ (1912); ‘Behind the Beyond’ (1913); ‘Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy’ (1915); ‘Further Foolishness’ (1916); ‘Essays and Literary Studies’ (1916). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).