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Stephen Leacock was born on 30 December 1869 in Swanmore, [3] [4] a village near Southampton in southern England. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b.1834), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's ...
The Stephen Leacock Associates, the non-profit organising body behind the award, was founded in 1946 by a loose group of Leacock’s friends and supporters. [1] Although administered and presented separately today, the award was announced as part of the Governor General's Awards in its early years. [3] [4] [5]
Robert Thomas Allen (1911–1990) was a Canadian humorist, best known as a two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for humour. [1] He won the award in 1957 for The Grass Is Never Greener, and in 1971 for Wives, Children and Other Wild Life.
Many characters are based on real-life people from Orillia, Ontario. Their names were only thinly-veiled in the original sketches that appeared as a serial in the Montreal Star. Out of an abundance of caution, Leacock changed many characters' names before the sketches were published together in book form. [2]
Mariposa is a fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for a series of short stories. Commissioned by The Montreal Star newspaper, they were later collected and published in one volume as Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
Eric Patrick Nicol (December 28, 1919 – February 2, 2011) [1] [2] was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humour columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper The Province.
"Taken piecemeal, Stephen Leacock's fun becomes the real humor of all sorts of things that we take with over-ponderous seriousness. "The Garden of Folly", under this acceptance, becomes a true garden through which we walk delighted and refreshed."
The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, [7] and won the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature. It was followed by the sequels You've Been Volunteered (2019) [8] and Yoga Pant Nation (2021). [9] Her novel Smells Like Tween Spirit was published in 2022. [10]