The Borough of Walsall gave him the title Freeman of the Borough. In 1902, he published the novel, Paul Kelver, which is considered an autobiographical and wrote the play The Passing of the Third Floor Back in 1908.Jerome published his autobiography, My Life and Times in 1926. The collection is complimented by an author biography. In 1898, during his short stay at Germany, he wrote Three Men on the Bummel which was a sequel to Three Men in a Boat. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. In 1893, he founded To-Day but had to stop its publication because of an ongoing financial crisis and a libel suit against him. Later, he went on to write many plays, novels and essay but they were not as successful as his book Three Men in a Boat. His style of writing influenced many humorists and satirists in England.
Within twenty years, the book sold over a million copies and was later adapted to movies, TV and radio shows, stage plays, and even a musical. With its publication, the number of boats went upto fifty percent following its publication. He created a comic situation in the book which was no way related or remotely connected to the history of the Thames region.
The two main Protagonists in the novel were replaced by his friends George Wingrave (George) and Carl Hentschel (Harris). Soon after it’s publication in 1889 it went on to become an instant hit. Jerome wrote his most famous work of literature Three Men in a Boat after his return from his honeymoon on a boat in river Thames. His writing career started with his collection of humorous essays Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow published in 1886.
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