This first comprehensive collection of correspondence by the creator of the irrepressible Jeeves and Bertie Wooster reveals Wodehouse (1881–1975) to be an indefatigably cheerful chap whose “voice” ...

He worked at a bank but disliked the job, so he quit. He turned to writing light fiction, a decision that proved to be fortuitous: His short stories and novels were so good that he became one of the ...

Evelyn Waugh considered P. G. Wodehouse the greatest comic writer of his time: that would be from 1900, when he sold his first magazine article, to 1974, when his last book came out. (He died a year ...

JOURNALISM HAS always been a desperate business. That’s the subtext of P.G. Wodehouse’s 1915 novel “Psmith, Journalist” (Overlook Press: 222 pp., $18.95), which has just been reissued as part of the ...

Writer Gary Shteyngart recently won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. The 11-year-old award was named for British author P.G. Wodehouse and has been awarded to Brits — until ...

P.G. Wodehouse’s most famous characters, patrician bumbler Bertie Wooster and his suave Shakespeare-quoting valet Jeeves, turn 100 in a few weeks with the September anniversary of Wodehouse’s 1915 ...

I am of Indian descent. My father was a writer, a language lover and a freedom fighter for independence from the British. He also started life as a high school teacher (“Wodehouse lightens the woes”, ...

The recent news that the publishers of Penguin books are “cleaning up” the writings of PG Wodehouse caused disbelief and indignation among the many devotees who worship at the shrine of the writer ...