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William Wymark Jacobs, usually known as W.W. Jacobs, was a prominent Edwardian horror and crime writer, playwright, and humorist; he is perhaps best known for his 1902 short story, “The Monkey’s Paw.”

Jacobs was born in 1863 in Wapping, a part of East London near the Thames. His father was a wharf manager. As a child he was known to be rather shy, but he enjoyed traveling to visit his relatives in East Anglia. After leaving private school at sixteen he became a postal bank clerk. He then worked in the savings bank department from 1883-1899.

In 1885 he began to submit some of his writing to Blackfriars, The Idler, and Today. He was also published in the Strand. His first collection was entitled Many Cargoes and came out in 1896; the 1897 novelette The Skipper’s Wooing and the short story collection Sea Urchins followed it. His last collection, Night Watches, was published in 1914. Much of his writing was influenced by his youth spent alongside the River and the characters he met there: stevedor

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W. W. Jacobs

English fiction writer (1863–1943)

W. W. Jacobs
Portrait of Jacobs by Elliott & Fry
Born	William Wymark Jacobs (1863-09-08)8 September 1863 London, England
Died	1 September 1943(1943-09-01) (aged 79) Islington, London, England
Occupation	Short story writer, novelist
Period	1885–1943

William Wymark Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of short fiction and drama. He is best known for his story "The Monkey's Paw".

Early life

He was born in 1863 at 5, Crombie's Row, Mile End Old Town (not Wapping, as is often stated),^[1] London, to William Gage Jacobs, wharf manager, and his wife Sophia.^[2] His father managed the South Devon wharf in Lower East Smithfield, by the St Katherine Docks and, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "the young Jacobs spent much time on Thames-side, growing familiar with the life of the neighbourhood" and "ran wild in Wapping".^[3] Jacobs and his siblings were still young when their mother died. Their father then

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William Wymark Jacobs was born on September 8, 1863 in London, England. An author, humorist and dramatist, Jacobs is best remembered for the enduring classic tale of horror called “The Monkey’s Paw”.

As a youth, Jacobs grew up near the Wapping docks in London, where his father was a wharf manager. The docklands setting would show up frequently in his later literary output. Jacobs the wharf rat and his three siblings lost their mother when they were all still young children. Their father, William Gage Jacobs, remarried and fathered a further seven children with his erstwhile housekeeper Ellen Florey. Although he grew up surrounded by poverty, Jacobs himself received a formal education in London, first at a private prep school and later at the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institute (now part of the University of London and known as Birkbeck College).

Jacobs’ adult working life began with a clerical position at the Post Office Savings Bank. The job was not a stimulating one and Jacobs started writing short stories, sketches and articles, many of which appeared in the Post O