Stephen Leacock Stephen Butler Leacock , (born 1869, Engand—died 1944Canada) was a Canadian humorist, educator, lecturer, and author. Works: Literary Lapses (1910), Nonsense Novels (1911), Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914), Humour: Its Theory and Technique (1935), The Boy I Left Behind Me (1946). With the Photographer - Stephen Leacock "I want my photograph taken," I said. The photographer looked at me without enthusiasm. He was a drooping man in a gray suit, with the dim eye of a natural scientist. But there is no need to describe him. Everybody knows what a photographer is like. "Sit there," he said, "and wait." I waited an hour. I read the Ladies Companion for 1912, the Girls Magazine for 1902 and the Infants Journal for 1888. I began to see that I had done an unwarrantable thing in breaking in on the privacy of this man's scienti...