On this day: George Orwell, who wrote in Defence of P.G.
Hollywood also features in your next choice, Wodehouse on Wodehouse. This is a collection of three of Wodehouse’s non-fiction books. One of them, Bring on the Girls, describes Wodehouse’s time as a lyricist, and in Hollywood when he worked with (musical producers) Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern.
I n September of 1936, six months after Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland, P. G. Wodehouse published a story titled “Buried Treasure.” This short tale begins with a conversation among.
Louder and Funnier is a collection of essays by P.G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the United Kingdom on 10 March 1932 by Faber and Faber, London. Most of the essays, which cover a broad range of topics, derive from articles written for the American Vanity Fair magazine between 1914 and 1923. During much of this period, Wodehouse was the magazine's drama critic, but he also wrote.
P.G. Wodehouse was a devotee of Agatha Christie and although they never met, they were pen pals towards the end of their lives, and those letters have been lent to the British Library.
The above list and accompanying notes have been compiled largely from information in Eileen McIlvaine's P G Wodehouse: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Checklist, and in the Addendum compiled by Tony Ring, supplemented by information available on the website of The P G Wodehouse Society (UK).Acknowledgement is also due to Richard Usborne's Penguin Wodehouse Companion.
Sep 13, 2012 - P.G. Wodehouse at work in his house on Long Island in America in the late 1960s, working on an electric typewriter - from The Russian Wodehouse Society.
Robert McCrum's Wodehouse A Life is a surprisingly serious tome about a mostly withdrawn man who is most famous for a rather large catalog of light humor, one great musical (Anything Goes) and a number of mostly forgotten musical comedies.(Edit Wodehouse's enduring contribution to Broadway was to help move the format to one where story and song are in mutual support, more like modern Broadway.