Sam Weller
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Sam Weller is a fictional character in The Pickwick Papers, the first novel by Charles Dickens, and is allegedly the character that made Dickens famous. Weller first appeared at the White Hart in the third serialised episode. Previously the monthly parts of the book had been doing badly — the humour of the character transformed the book into a publishing phenomenon.
There is also a Sam Weller who, alive today, is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College, in Chicago, Illinois. Among his works is the only authorized biography of science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury, entitled The Bradbury Chronicles. Sam Weller is also an award winning journalist and the former Midwest correspondenbt for Publishers Weekly. He lives in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and daughter.
