P. G. Wodehouse biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of P. G. Wodehouse

Author Name:

P. G. Wodehouse

Born As:

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Other Names:

Henry William-JonesP. Brooke-HavenPelham GrenvilleMelrose GraingerJ. Walker WilliamsC. P. West

Born:

15 Oct 1881

Died:

14 Feb 1975




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Humorist and novelist                          
Selected Works:

The Man Upstairs - 1914
P Smith, Journalist - 1915
Something Fresh - 1915
The Man with Two Left Feet - 1917
Piccadilly Jim - 1918
The Adventures of Sally - 1922
The Girl on the Boat - 1922
The Clicking Of Cuthbert - 1922
The Inimitable Jeeves - 1923
Ukridge - 1924
Carry On, Jeeves - 1925
The Heart of a Goof - 1926
Mr Mulliner Speaking - 1929
Summer Lightning - 1929
Very Good, Jeeves - 1930
Big Money - 1931
Thank You, Jeeves - 1934
Right Ho, Jeeves - 1934
Blandings Castle - 1935
The Luck of the Bodkins - 1935
Laughing Gas - 1936
Young Men in Spats - 1936
Lord Emsworth and Others - 1937
The Code of the Woosters - 1938
Summer Moonshine - 1938
Uncle Fred in the Springtime - 1939
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets - 1940
Quick Service - 1940
Joy in the Morning - 1947
Spring Fever - 1948
Uncle Dynamite - 1948
he Mating Season - 1949
Pigs Have Wings - 1952
Ring for Jeeves - 1953
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit - 1954
Cocktail Time - 1958
A Few Quick Ones - 1959
Jeeves in the Offing - 1960
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - 1963
Galahad at Blandings - 1965
A Pelican at Blandings - 1969
The Girl in Blue - 1970
Much Obliged, Jeeves - 1971
Sunset at Blandings - 1977 - posthumously published                                                                  
Mother Eleanor Deane
Father Henry Ernest Wodehouse
Married Ethel Wayman in 1914, gaining a stepdaughter, Leonora. Had no children of his own, maybe because he had mumps as a child.                                                                  
                                                                  
Became US citizen in 1955.