Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian male author. His literary output includes 481 works, with notable titles such as *Nonsense novels*, *My discovery of England*, *College days*, *Last leaves*, and *Frenzied fiction*. He is also associated with five works listed in Crossref and one work in Europeana.
Leacock’s writings have been referenced by 274 other encyclopedia articles. His recorded quotes include observations on Americans, the origin of Saskatchewan, and the term "angling." Additionally, he has 89 listeners and a playcount of 351 on Last.fm.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 December 1869
- Died
- 28 March 1944
- Works
- 493
Top works
- Nonsense novels
- My discovery of England
- College days
- Last leaves
- Frenzied fiction
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1869-12-30
- Active to
- 1944-03-28
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 89
- Total plays
- 351
Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian economist, writer and humorist. Leacock was born in Swanmore, near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England, and at the age of six moved to Canada with his family, which settled on a farm in Egypt, Ontario, near the village of Sutton and the shores of Lake Simcoe. While the family had been well off in England (the Leacocks had made a fortune in Madeira and lived on an estate called Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight) <a href=
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,831x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,093x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,344x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,547x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,132x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”
- “Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)—that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it—which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose—will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate.”
- “Americans are queer people: they can't rest.”
- “The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born.”
- “With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.”
- “It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Stephen Butler Leacock , 30 December 1869, Swanmore , Hampshire , England
- Died
- 28 March 1944 (1944-03-28) (aged 74), Toronto , Ontario , Canada
- Language
- English
- Education
- Upper Canada College
- Alma mater
- University of Toronto , University of Chicago
- Genre
- Humour
- Subject
- Sciences
- Notable works
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; My Financial Career
- Notable awards
- Lorne Pierce Medal , Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Hampshire
- Place of death
- Toronto
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Employer
- McGill University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- Image
- Stephen Leacock.jpg
Show 14 more facts
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- date of death
- 1944-03-28
- date of birth
- 1869-12-30
- Commons category
- Stephen Leacock
- birth name
- Stephen Butler Leacock
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society of Canada
- writing language
- English language
- archives at
- Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
- inventory number
- MS COLL 00499
- P12749
- Canon EOS 40D
- name in native language
- Stephen Leacock
- Commons Creator page
- Stephen Leacock
Sources (5)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Stephen Leacock, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~19 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Stephen Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephen Leacock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.