Background
Wodehouse was born in Guildford on October 15, 1881. The Wodehouses, tracing their ancestry back to the 13th century, belonged to a collateral branch of the family of the earls of Kimberley.
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Wodehouse was born in Guildford on October 15, 1881. The Wodehouses, tracing their ancestry back to the 13th century, belonged to a collateral branch of the family of the earls of Kimberley.
He was educated at Dulwich College in London.
In 1902 he began to contribute pieces of whimsy and humor to London newspapers and magazines. After 1909 he frequently lived half of each year in the United States, except during World War II when he was a prisoner in Germany.
In 1914 he sold his first serial to The Saturday Evening Post, and this began the Blandings Castle series (Leave It to Psmith, Fish Preferred, Heavy Weather, Blandings Castle, The Crime Wave at Blandings, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Full Moon, and Pigs Have Wings).
Wodehouse also wrote many musicals, chiefly with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern. Perhaps his greatest contribution to humor is the immortal butler Jeeves. The first Jeeves story appeared in 1916, and the first book (Jeeves) in 1923. Jeeves also appears in Carry On, Jeeves; Thank You, Jeeves; and The Return of Jeeves. Other books by Wodehouse include the short stories The World of Mr. Mulliner (1935), the autobiographical works Performing Flea (1953) and Over Seventy (1957), the collection The Most of P. G. Wodehouse (1960), and the novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974).
Wodehouse was knighted in 1975.
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