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)