Last Updated on August 22, 2021

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer, best known for Three Men in a Boat.

Three Men in a Boat was Jerome’s biggest success.  He wrote the novel after taking his honeymoon on a small boat on the Thames.  While he wrote for the rest of his life, he never was able to write anything else as popular as Three Men in a Boat.

Novels by Jerome K. Jerome

• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889)
• Diary of a Pilgrimage (and Six Essays) (1891)
• Weeds: A Story in Seven Chapters (1892)
• Novel Notes (1893)
• Three Men on the Bummel (a.k.a. Three Men on Wheels) (1900)
• Paul Kelver, a novel (1902)
• Tea-table Talk (1903)
• Tommy and Co (1904)
• They and I (1909)
• All Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)
• Anthony John (1923)

Collections

• Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
• Told After Supper (1891)
• John Ingerfield: And Other Stories (1894)
• Sketches in Lavender, Blue, and Green (1895)
• Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898)
• The Observations of Henry (1901)
• The Angel and the Author – and Others (1904) (20 essays)
• American Wives – and Others (1904) (25 essays, comprising 5 from The Angel and the Author, and 20 from Idle Ideas in 1905)
• Idle Ideas in 1905 (1905)
• The Passing of the Third Floor Back: And Other Stories (1907)
• Malvina of Brittany (1916)
• A miscellany of sense and nonsense from the writings of Jerome K. Jerome. Selected by the author with many apologies, with forty-three illustrations by Will Owen. 1924
• Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (1974)
• After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales (1985)
• A Bicycle in Good Repair

Jerome K. Jerome Links

• The Jerome K. Jerome Society
• Jerome K. Jerome at Project Gutenberg