P. G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881, the son of a colonial magistrate stationed in Hong Kong, and was brought up in England by aunts; between the ages of three and fifteen, he spent barely six months with his parents. He did not go to university and worked for two years in a London bank. Arrested in France in 1940 and interned in Germany, he gave five radio talks from Berlin in 1941, which earned him a long disgrace; he never returned to England and became an American citizen in 1955. He died in 1975, having been knighted a few weeks earlier.

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• NovelThe Code of the WoostersP. G. Wodehouse · 1938Literature