W.W Jacobs
30 Fasts about W.W Jacobs
- He was most known because of his famous story "The Monkey's Paw"
- He was born in London, England
- Born on September 8, 1863
- He was the eldest son
- Jacob and his family were poor
- He attended a private school in London,
- Went to Birkbeck College
- His early stories were tentative and naive
- His birth sign is Virgo
- His most famous story is the Monkey's Paw
- He wrote more than 158 short stories
- In 1897, he became a clerk in the civil service
- While serving as a clerk, he began submitting sketches and occasional pieces to magazines
- William Wymark Jacobs is his full name
- Died in 1943
- William Gage Jacobs and Sophis are his parents
- Died at age 79
- It is certain that he may have suffered from a terminal illness because wrote very little in the last decade of his life
- His father was wharf manager at the South Devon wharf at Lower East Smithfield
- He wrote short storied and novels
- He published his first short story in 1885
- He was married in 1900 and had a daughter
- The Strand Magazine accepted one of his stories in 1895
- His first novel, A Master of Craft, appeared in 1900
- For amusement and extra money, Jacobs wrote humorous stories about the activities of people in villages along the Thames
- He was one of the most popular humorists of the early 1900s
- His first volume had immediate success
- He died September 1
- He had 3 boys and 1 girl
- His early stories were tentative and naive but the were enough to show that he had promise upon further development in a career as a writer