Encyclopedia > Stephen Leacock

  Article Content

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) was a British-Canadian writer and economist. He was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, and educated at the University of Toronto, later becoming a lecturer and head of the economics faculty at McGill University. He had a secondary career as a writer of biographies and of humorous short stories and articles.

Leacock's books include:

  • Elements of Political Science (1906)
  • Practical Political Economy (1910)
  • Literary Lapses (1910)
  • Nonsense Novels (1911)
  • Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
  • Winsome Winnie (1920)
  • The Economic Prosperity of the British Empire (1931)
  • The Boy I Left Behind Me (1946)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Sanskrit language

... identical to Avestan, the language of Zoroastrianism. After the consolidation of its grammar and lexicon (see History below) it turned into a classical language of ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 39 ms