“Camp was really great fun,” the English comic novelist P. G. Wodehouse wrote to an old school friend. He was speaking of the forty-eight weeks between 1940 and 1941 that he spent in a series of ...

Devotees of P. G. Wodehouse, and I’m one, don’t respond well when he’s criticized. We have snap rejoinders. He wrote too many books? Hardly—why, he published only ninety-six in his long lifetime. He ...

Translating PG Wodehouse to the stage isn't easy. He's the Master – with a capital M – of language: there's at least one original metaphor on every page. So I wasn't sure how well this new play, based ...

Like Bertie Wooster's heliotrope pyjamas, Wodehouse's letters were often buttoned up to disguise true feeling. But others are more intimate and revealing In 1928, the American magazine Liberty ...

Although it is shocking to report, candor requires that I begin by acknowledging that it was not until 1982, when I was in my late twenties, that I first acquainted myself with the sublime work of Sir ...

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 ...

Blame it on my love of language, and blame that on my dad—the “it” being my unhealthy need for the stories of P. G. Wodehouse. The witty, wonderful, meandering, wise-cracking tales of Jeeves and ...

British novelist P.G.Wodehouse puffs on his pipe during an interview at his Long Island home in Remsenburg, NY, Oct. 13, 1971. Wodehouse, who celebrates his 90th birthday on Oct. 15, has averaged ...

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 ...

When book reviewers write about legendary British humor writer P.G. Wodehouse, they often fall into the trap of trying to display the same effervescent wit possessed by the writer whom Evelyn Waugh ...

The beloved British humorist — the creator of Wooster and Jeeves — was arrested by the Germans in 1940 and spent the remainder of the war in custody. Here’s how his story unspooled in The Times. By ...