Jacobs, W. W. (1863-1943), was an English short-story writer. Jacobs established his reputation as a writer with his humorous stories of sailors and dockworkers. Those stories were based on his memories of his childhood on the London docks, where his father was a wharf manager. However, Jacobs is best known today for his short story “The Monkey’s Paw,” a classic of horror writing. The story first appeared in Jacobs’s collection The Lady of the Barge (1902).
Jacobs won fame as a short-story writer with his first three collections of stories, Many Cargoes (1896), The Skipper’s Wooing (1897), and Sea Urchins (1898). William Wymark Jacobs was born on Sept. 8, 1863, in London. He died on Sept. 1, 1943.
