P. G. Wodehouse

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Celebrated as the creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse is undoubtedly the best-loved humourist of our times, and one of the most-read authors of this century. 'Plum', as he was known to his friends, was an uncomplicated and gentle man, unaffected by his enormous success and wealth. Writing with much of the spirit of Wodehouse himself, Joseph Connolly charts his life and career from infancy and schooldays through his early attempts at writing, publication of his first books, marriage and his rapid rise as a novelist, to his well-deserved knighhood in 1975, the year of his death at the age of 93. Liberal quotations from his letters and short extracts from his novels enliven the text, which is illustrated with photographs of him and the people he worked with -- among them George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin -- and scenes from his work adapted for the theatre and for the screen. 104 illustrations.