QUICK SERVICE—P. G. Wodehouse—Doubleday, Doran ($2). Few noises are more thrilling than the shrieks of pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late ...

WASHINGTON — If you’re trying to evoke the alternative universe that is the prose of P.G. Wodehouse, there is perhaps no better place to start than the passage in which Bertie Wooster’s schoolmate, ...

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 ...

I visited Christopher Hitchens in the hospital just after he'd been given a diagnosis of mortal illness. By his bed I noticed a dog-eared Jeeves and Wooster paperback. Christopher esteemed P.G.

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in ITV's Jeeves and Wooster series in the 1990s PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was ...

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 ...

“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 ...