William Wymark Jacobs
Born in Wapping, Middlesex, England, UK
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English author of short stories and novels (1863–1943)
| Born | 8 September 1863 |
| Died | 1 September 1943 |
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W. W. Jacobs
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English author of short stories and novels (1863–1943)
| Born | 8 September 1863 |
| Died | 1 September 1943 |
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Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Horror stories, Horror tales, River life, Children's fiction, English Humorous stories, Short stories, Social life and customs, England, fiction, short stories, short story, Juvenile fiction, American Horror tales, English Horror tales, Fiction, general, American literature, Wishes, first-person narrative, horror, Classic Literature, Crime, Detective and mystery stories, English Ghost storiesPlaces
England, Amazon rainforest, Cambridge, Caribbean, Eton College, London, Ship-Trap Island, Tibet, Toledo, United States, Angleterre, Baker Street, Buenos Aires, Carcosa, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Jamaica, Lucerne, Mallard residence, Memphis, New England, Orbis Tertius, Tlön, Uqbar, kingdom by the seaPeople
Billy Weaver, Christopher Mulholland, Ernest Valdemar, Father Time, General Zaroff, Gregory W. Temple, Ivan, Prince Prospero, Sanger Rainsford, The Great White Czar, Whitney, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Annabel Lee, Archie, Aylmer, Berenice, Bill Hutchinson, Brently Mallard, Carlos, Colonel Killigrew, Dr. Heidegger, Duncan Ross, Egaeus, Ethelred, Ezra BuckleyTime
20th century, 1700, 17th century, 1890, 1935-1947, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1947, 19th century, December, carnivalID Numbers
- OLID: OL160918A
- GoodReads: 57721
- ISNI: 0000000120182663
- IMDb: nm0414669
- Library of Congress Names: n50027985
- LibriVox: 924
- MusicBrainz: 068737d9-2373-4529-aad9-d675da4b04aa
- Project Gutenberg: 1865
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV154634
- VIAF: 71425976
- Wikidata: Q1385758
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q1385758
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Alternative names
- W.W Jacobs
- W., W. Jacobs
- W W. Jacobs
- W W. JACOBS
- W.W JACOBS
- W. W. JACOBS
- William Wymark Jacobs
- W.W. Jacobs
- W. W. Jacobs
- William Wymark JACOBS
- W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
- W. W. (William Wymark) 1863- Jacobs
- W. W. (William Wymark) 1863-194 Jacobs
| July 31, 2025 | Edited by WikidataBot | [sync_author_identifiers_with_wikidata] add wikidata remote identifiers |
| April 5, 2023 | Edited by Tom Morris | merge authors |
| September 30, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | add ISNI |
| December 11, 2018 | Edited by Dirk_P_Broer | William Wymark Jacobs. Born in Wapping, Middlesex, England, UK |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | initial import |