P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Described by Sean O'Casey as "English literature's performing flea", Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett.

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October 15 - 1881 - February 14 - 1975 - Sean O'Casey - English - Prose - Hilaire Belloc - Evelyn Waugh - Rudyard Kipling - Salman Rushdie - Douglas Adams - Terry Pratchett

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Best-known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented lyricist who worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Show Boat.

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Jeeves - Blandings Castle - Cole Porter - Musical - Anything Goes - Jerome Kern - Show Boat

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