Stephen Butler Leacock (
1869-
1944) was a British-Canadian writer and
economist. He was born in Swanmore,
Hampshire, and educated at the
University of Toronto, later becoming a lecturer and head of the economics faculty at
McGill University. He had a secondary career as a writer of biographies and of humorous short stories and articles.
Leacock's books include:
- Elements of Political Science (1906)
- Practical Political Economy (1910)
- Literary Lapses (1910)
- Nonsense Novels (1911)
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
- Winsome Winnie (1920)
- The Economic Prosperity of the British Empire (1931)
- The Boy I Left Behind Me (1946)