Question

Talk about one famous writer and his/ her book. How do we say.

Answer 1

Stephen Butler Leacock was born on 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, Hampshire, England, the third of eleven children to Peter Leacock and Agnes Emma (née Butler). The Leacock family did a lot of travelling in their early years but finally emigrated to Canada in 1876 and settled near the village of Sutton, Ontario on a one-hundred acre farm. It was a difficult time, with harsh winters and hard work. It was only two years later that Stephen's father Peter travelled to Manitoba, leaving his large family behind. Leacock enrolled at the University of Toronto in 1887, studying modern and classical languages and literature with such exceptional talent and focus that he finished two years' worth of courses in just one. He graduated from University College in 1891with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
The "Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour" has been awarded yearly since 1947 for the best humorous book by a Canadian author. In 1958, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Home on Old Brewery Bay was opened to the public and declared a national monument in 1968. To mark the centenary of Leacock's birth the Government of Canada, issued on 12 November, 1969, a six-cent stamp in his honour. In 1970 a mountain in the Yukon's Saint Elias range was named after him.

Other works of Stephen Leacock include:

Further Foolishness and Essays and Literary Studies (1916)
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (1920)
My Discovery of England (1922)
Economic Prosperity in the British Empire (1930)
Mark Twain (1932)
Charles Dickens, His Life and Work (1933)
Humour: Its Theory and Technique (1935)
Canada: Foundations of Its Future (1941)
Montreal: Seaport and City (1942)
My Remarkable Uncle (1942)
Canada and the Sea (1944)

published posthumously:

Last Leaves (1945)
While There Is Time: The Case Against Social Catastrophe (1945)
The Boy I Left Behind Me (1946)
The Doctrine of Laissez-faire (1997)