P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE was an English author. He was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. He published more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974.
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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE was an English author. He was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong. Most of his fiction is set in his native United Kingdom, although he spent much of his life in the US. He wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies during and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, that played an important part in the development of the American musical. In 1940 he was taken prisoner at Le Touquet by the invading Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. From 1947 until his death he lived in the U.S., taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955. He died in 1975, at the age of 93, in Southampton, New York, and was buried at St Paul’s Cathedral in New York. He used a mixture of Edwardian slang, quotations from and allusions to numerous poets, and several literary techniques to produce a prose style that has been compared to comic poetry and musical comedy. He worked extensively on his books, sometimes having two or more in preparation simultaneously. He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand words.
After the scenario was complete he would write the story. Early in his career Wode house would produce a novel in about three months, but he slowed in old age to around six months. He published more than ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings between 1902 and 1974. He never returned to England to live with his family after his death in 1974, and died in Southampton in 1987. He is buried in St Paul’s Cathedral in the New York City borough of Manhattan. His wife, Eleanor, was also of ancient aristocratic ancestry. The Wodehouses, who traced their ancestry back to the 13th century, belonged to a cadet branch of the family of the earls of Kimberley. The boy was baptised at the Church of St Nicolas, Guildford,. and was named after his godfather, Pelham von Donop. The name was rapidly known and became known to friends and family. When he was two years old, he sailed for Hong Kong, where for his first two years he was raised by his elder brothers alongside his older sister Peveril and Armine. The boys’ parents returned to Hong Kong and became virtual strangers to their sons. When the boys’ father and mother returned to the UK, they were placed under the care of an English nanny in a house adjoining that of Eleanor’s father and brother’s house. In a 1931 interview, his naive revelations of incompetence and extravagance in the studios caused a furore.
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