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- Name: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
- Born: October 15, 1881
- Died: February 14, 1975
- Literary Genre: Comic novels, lyricist, playright, short stories
- Awards: Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire at age 93
- Writings often satirized bureaucrats, aristocrats, and authority figures
- Collaborated as lyricist with Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin
- In 2000, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize established in his honor
- Friends and family called him "Plum"
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Comic novelist, short story writer, lyricist and playwright, P.G. Wodehouse attained popular success during a career of over 70 years.
Some of Wodehouse's more recognized works are the short stories and novels about Jeeves, the English butler, and the Blanderings Castle and Elsewhere short stories.
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Career
Since he barely saw his parents, Wodehouse spent a good amount of time writing to fill the void as he grew up. After college, he got a job at a bank and worked on his writing part-time.Eventually achieving success, Wodehouse began writing full time. Wodehouse began working as a journalist for The Globe eventually moving to New York, taking a position with The New Yorker as a theater critic.
Wodehouse began publishing novels and short stories and also working as a lyricist and screenwriter.
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"Had his only contribution to literature been Lord Emsworth and Blandings Castle, his place in history would have been assured. Had he written of none but Mike and Psmith, he would be cherished today as the best and brightest of our comic authors. If Jeeves and Wooster had been his solitary theme, still he would be hailed as the Master. If he had given us only Ukridge, or nothing but recollections of the Mulliner family, or a pure diet of golfing stories, Doctor Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse would nonetheless be considered immortal. That he gave us all those - and more - is our good fortune and a testament to the most industrious, prolific and beneficent author ever to have sat down, scratched his head and banged out a sentence." — The Independent -
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P.G. Wodehouse Personal Timeline
- October 15, 1881: Born, Guildford, Surrey, England
- 1909: Opens first play in New York
- 1914: Marries Ethel Rowley
- 1926: Is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- 1930: Earns first screenwriting contract with MGM
- 1934: Takes up residence in France
- 1940: Is imprisoned as an enemy alien by German Army during WWII
- 1955: Obtains American citizenship
- 1974: Is knighted by the Order of the British Empire
- February 14, 1975: Dies
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Notable P.G. Wodehouse Adaptations or Films
- Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- 1929: Sally
- 1936: Piccadilly Jim
- 1937: A Damsel in Distress | Step Lively, Jeeves
- 1956: Anything Goes
- 1961: The Girl on the Boat
- 1967: Blandings Castle
- 1990-93: Jeeves and Wooster
- 1995: Heavy Weather
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