Wodehouse biography
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (; –) was a prolific English author, humorist and scriptwriter. After being educated at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life, he was employed by a bank, but disliked the work and wrote magazine pieces in his spare time. In he published his first novel, The Pothunters, set at the fictional public school of St. Austin's; his early stories continued the school theme. He also used the school setting in his short story collections, which started in with the publication of Tales of St. Austin's.
Throughout his novel- and story-writing career Wodehouse created several regular comic characters with whom the public became familiar. These include Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the disaster-prone opportunist Ukridge; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with
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Who was P G Wodehouse? (The name, by the way, is pronounced 'Woodhouse').
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ("Plum" to his family and friends) is widely regarded as the master of the English comic novel.
He was born, the third of four sons, on 15 October at Guildford in Surrey. His father, an English civil servant, was a judge in the British colony of Hong Kong and Wodehouse had an unsettled childhood, spending much of his time in the care of a succession of aunts, an experience which he later put to good use in his writings.
In Wodehouse became a full-time boarder at Dulwich College, a public (that is to say, fee-paying and therefore private!) school. Wodehouse was an active member of the school, playing rugby and cricket for the school first teams and contributing to the school magazine; he later described his time at Dulwich as "idyllic" and used the locality, loosely disguised under the pseudonym "Valley Fields", as a setting in several of his books.
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P. G. Wodehouse
English writer (–)
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (WUUD-howss; 15 October – 14 February ) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr. Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.
Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction. Most of Wodehouse's fic