Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927;
Oxford DNB); novelist and playwright. Co-edited
The Idler, publishing works by writers including Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Corelli,
Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and
W. W. Jacobs. Founded the weekly
To-Day. Also published several novels and an autobiography. Joined the Society of Authors in 1889.