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 ...

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 ...

This first comprehensive collection of correspondence by the creator of the irrepressible Jeeves and Bertie Wooster reveals Wodehouse (1881–1975) to be an indefatigably cheerful chap whose “voice” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hugh Laurie, left, and Stephen Fry, seen here in a publicity photo, played Bertie Wooster and Jeeves in a BBC series of Wodehouse ...

“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 ...

Making a reader cry is often surprisingly easy. Combine a pair of star-crossed lovers, make sure that at least one of them has an incurable and fatal disease, add in a few poignant speeches that ...

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 ...

For anyone interested in the politics of left and right -- and in political journalism as it is practiced at the highest level, Orwell’s works are indispensable. This week, in the year that marks the ...

Author PG Wodehouse. Photo courtesy of The Wodehouse Society. The Wodehouse Society, dedicated to the life and works of author/playwright/lyricist P. G. Wodehouse, is holding its next biennial ...

One of the minor miseries of disaster is that it can turn you into a cliché. After weeks of unconsciously absorbing quarantine Twitter’s advice to read P. G. Wodehouse, I alighted on a brilliant idea.

Seeking succor when the world seems to be closing in on you is a quintessentially human habit. Some people do it by gorging on comfort food like macaroni and cheese, others choose drink, or drugs, or ...