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P.G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (pronounced “wood-house”), known as “Plum” to his family and friends, wrote some of the most entertaining novels, stories, plays, lyrics, and poems of the twentieth century, and created enduring characters that millions would like to call their friends.

The Wodehouse Society — About P.G. Wodehouse

His professional career may well have been the longest of any author; his first story was published in when he was 19 years old, and he continued to write up to and including the day of his death on February 14, , at 93 years of age.

For three-quarters of a century, on both sides of the Atlantic, he worked to craft and polish an inimitable style, with brilliantly-devised farcical plots and a witty use of language that reads as though it had been tossed off without a care.

His work has rightly been compared to Mozart's music and Fred Astaire's dancing; seemingly simple and effortless because so much behind-the-scene P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography by Frances Donaldson - YouTube BYBI