Stephen Leacock

As the foremost literary humorist of his day, Stephen Leacock enjoyed a huge international success, and his comic works (especially Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) still have the power to delight today’s readers. But Leacock was also a professor of political science and economics; he produced sixty-one works in various fields; he wrote more than ninety scholarly articles. In Stephen Leacock: The Sage of Orillia, James Doyle explores the life of this prominent and prolific writer.