Author: P G Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville 1881-1975. Novelist. Born in Guildford, Surrey, UK, and educated at Dulwich College, he worked as a bank clerk and gave this up for his writing in 1903. His school stories were serialised in The Captain, a magazine for boys, in which one of his famous later characters, Psmith, first appeared. After 1909 Wodehouse lived mainly abroad, in Paris and the USA. He wrote lyrics to a number of successful musical comedies, but is most famous for his creation of Jeeves, who first appeared with Berty Wooster in a collections of stories called The Man With Two Left Feet (1919). During World War II Wodehouse was captured and interned in Germany. He was released but prevented from leaving the country, and subsequently made a number of broadcasts from Berlin for which he was later accused of pro-Nazi sympathies. After the war he settled in the USA and continued his prolific career (including work for Hollywood), eventually bringing his total number of novels and stories to something over 100. He received American citizenship in 1955. He was knighted only weeks before his death.
