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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (; 1881–1975) was a prolific English author, humorist and scriptwriter. After being educated at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life, he was employed by a bank, but disliked the work and wrote magazine pieces in his spare time. In 1902 he published his first novel, The Pothunters, set at the fictional public school of St. Austin's; his early stories continued the school theme. He also used the school setting in his short story collections, which started in 1903 with the publication of Tales of St. Austin's.
Throughout his novel- and story-writing career Wodehouse created several regular comic characters with whom the public became familiar. These include Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the disaster-prone opportunist Ukridge; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tales on numerous subjects from film studios to the Church of England.
Wodehouse also wrote scripts and screenplays and, in August 1911, his script A Gentleman of Leisure was produced on the Broadway stage. In the 1920s and 1930s he collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton in an arrangement that "helped transform the American musical" of the time; in the Grove Dictionary of American Music Larry Stempel writes, "By presenting naturalistic stories and characters and attempting to integrate the songs and lyrics into the action of the libretto, these works brought a new level of intimacy, cohesion, and sophistication to American musical comedy." His writing for plays also turned into scriptwriting, starting with the 1915 film A Gentleman of Leisure. He joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1930 for a year, and then worked for RKO Pictures in 1937.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, and while living in northern France, Wodehouse was captured by the Germans and was interned for over a year. After his release he was tricked into making five comic and apolitical broadcasts on German radio to the still neutral US. After vehement protests in Britain, Wodehouse never returned to his home country, despite being cleared by an MI5 investigation. He moved to the US permanently in 1947 and took American citizenship in 1955, retaining his British nationality. He died in 1975, at the age of 93, in Southampton, New York, one month after he was awarded a knighthood of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).
Initially in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.
| UK title | Year of UK publication | UK publisher (All publishers based in London) | US title | Year of US publication | US publisher (New York, unless otherwise stated) | Series | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A & C Black | Macmillan Publishers | School | – | |||||
| A & C Black | Macmillan Publishers | School | – | |||||
| A & C Black | Macmillan Publishers | School | – | |||||
| William Tell Told Again | A & C Black | William Tell Told Again | Macmillan Publishers | – | – | |||
| A & C Black | Macmillan Publishers | School | – | |||||
| Love Among the Chickens | Newnes | Love Among the Chickens | Circle | Ukridge | A rewritten version was published in 1921 | |||
| A & C Black | Macmillan Publishers | School | – | |||||
| Not George Washington | Cassell and Co. | Not George Washington | Cassell and Co. | – | Co-authored with Herbert Westbrook; a semi-autobiographical novel | |||
| Alston Rivers | Seabury Press | – | – | |||||
| Mike | A & C Black | (See note) | – | – | Psmith and School | Second half published as Enter Psmith in 1935; both parts released in 1953, the first half as Mike at Wrykyn and the second as Mike and Psmith | ||
| Alston Rivers | Watt | – | An earlier version, The Gem Collector, was published in Ainslee's Magazine in December 1909 | |||||
| Psmith in the City | A & C Black | Psmith in the City | Macmillan Publishers | Psmith | – | |||
| Mills & Boon | Watt | – | The US edition combines the plot of the UK publication with that of Psmith, Journalist | |||||
| Methuen Publishing | Watt | School | – | |||||
| Psmith, Journalist | A & C Black | Psmith, Journalist | Macmillan Publishers | Psmith and Kid Brady | – | |||
| Something Fresh | Methuen Publishing | Something New | D. Appleton & Company | Blandings Castle | – | |||
| Uneasy Money | Methuen Publishing | Uneasy Money | D. Appleton & Company | – | – | |||
| Piccadilly Jim | Jenkins | Piccadilly Jim | Dodd, Mead and Company | – | – | |||
| Jenkins | Doran | – | – | |||||
| Jenkins | Their Mutual Child | Boni & Liveright | – | – | ||||
| Jill the Reckless | Jenkins | Doran | – | – | ||||
| Jenkins | Three Men and a Maid | Doran | – | – | ||||
| Jenkins | Mostly Sally | Doran | – | – | ||||
| Jeeves | 1923 | Burt (Doran) | UK Edition unknown | |||||
| Leave It to Psmith | Jenkins | Leave It to Psmith | Doran | Psmith and Blandings Castle | – | |||
| Bill the Conqueror | Methuen Publishing | Bill the Conqueror | Doran | – | – | |||
| Sam the Sudden | Methuen Publishing | Sam in the Suburbs | Doran | – | – | |||
| Methuen Publishing | Doran | – | – | |||||
| Money for Nothing | Jenkins | Money for Nothing | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| Summer Lightning | Jenkins | Fish Preferred | Doubleday, Doran | Blandings Castle | – | |||
| Big Money | Jenkins | Big Money | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| If I Were You | Jenkins | If I Were You | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| Doctor Sally | Methuen Publishing | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Hot Water | Jenkins | Hot Water | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| Heavy Weather | Jenkins | Heavy Weather | Little, Brown and Company | Blandings Castle | – | |||
| Thank You, Jeeves | Jenkins | Thank You, Jeeves | Little, Brown and Company | Jeeves | – | |||
| Right Ho, Jeeves | Jenkins | Brinkley Manor | Little, Brown and Company | Jeeves | – | |||
| Jenkins | Little, Brown and Company | – | – | |||||
| Laughing Gas | Jenkins | Laughing Gas | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| Summer Moonshine | Jenkins | Summer Moonshine | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| Jenkins | Doubleday, Doran | Jeeves | – | |||||
| Uncle Fred in the Springtime | Jenkins | Uncle Fred in the Springtime | Doubleday, Doran | Blandings Castle and Uncle Fred | – | |||
| Quick Service | Jenkins | Quick Service | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| Money in the Bank | Jenkins | Money in the Bank | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | |||
| Joy in the Morning | Jenkins | Joy in the Morning | Doubleday | Jeeves | This has also been published as Jeeves in the Morning in the US | |||
| Full Moon | Jenkins | Full Moon | Doubleday | Blandings Castle | – | |||
| Spring Fever | Jenkins | Spring Fever | Doubleday | – | – | |||
| Uncle Dynamite | Jenkins | Uncle Dynamite | Didier & Co. | Uncle Fred | – | |||
| Jenkins | Didier & Co. | Jeeves | – | |||||
| Jenkins | Doubleday | – | – | |||||
| Barmy in Wonderland | Jenkins | Angel Cake | Doubleday | – | – | |||
| Pigs Have Wings | Jenkins | Pigs Have Wings | Doubleday | Blandings Castle | – | |||
| Ring for Jeeves | Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves | – | ||||
| Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit | Jenkins | Bertie Wooster Sees It Through | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves | – | |||
| French Leave | Jenkins | French Leave | Simon & Schuster | – | – | |||
| Something Fishy | Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | – | – | ||||
| Cocktail Time | Jenkins | Cocktail Time | Simon & Schuster | Uncle Fred | – | |||
| Jeeves in the Offing | Jenkins | How Right You Are, Jeeves | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves | – | |||
| Ice in the Bedroom | Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | – | – | ||||
| Service with a Smile | Jenkins | Service with a Smile | Simon & Schuster | Blandings Castle and Uncle Fred | – | |||
| Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | Jenkins | Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves | – | |||
| Frozen Assets | Jenkins | Biffen's Millions | Simon & Schuster | – | – | |||
| Galahad at Blandings | Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | Blandings Castle | – | ||||
| Company for Henry | Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | – | – | ||||
| Do Butlers Burgle Banks? | Jenkins | Do Butlers Burgle Banks? | Simon & Schuster | – | – | |||
| Jenkins | No Nudes Is Good Nudes | Simon & Schuster | Blandings Castle | – | ||||
| Barrie & Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | – | – | |||||
| Much Obliged, Jeeves | Barrie & Jenkins | Jeeves and the Tie That Binds | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves | – | |||
| Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin | Barrie & Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | – | – | ||||
| Bachelors Anonymous | Barrie & Jenkins | Bachelors Anonymous | Simon & Schuster | – | – | |||
| Aunts Aren't Gentlemen | Barrie & Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves | – | ||||
| Sunset at Blandings | Chatto & Windus | Sunset at Blandings | Simon & Schuster | Blandings Castle | Unfinished | |||
| The Luck Stone | Galahad Books | – | – | – | – | – |
In chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.
| UK title | Year of UK publication | UK publisher (All publishers based in London) | US title | Year of US publication | US publisher (All publishers based in New York) | Series | Notes | ||
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| Tales of St. Austin's | A & C Black | Tales of St. Austin's | Macmillan Publishers | School | – | ||||
| Methuen Publishing | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Methuen Publishing | Doran | Jeeves | – | ||||||
| My Man Jeeves | Newnes | – | – | – | Jeeves | Many rewritten for Carry On, Jeeves | |||
| Indiscretions of Archie | Jenkins | Indiscretions of Archie | Doran | – | – | ||||
| Jenkins | Golf Without Tears | Doran | Golf | – | |||||
| Jenkins | Jeeves | Doran | Jeeves | Wodehouse's biographer, Richard Usborne, considers this a "loosely stitched novel of eighteen chapters which make ten separate stories in The Jeeves Omnibus" | |||||
| Ukridge | Jenkins | He Rather Enjoyed It | Doran | – | – | ||||
| Carry On, Jeeves | Jenkins | Carry On, Jeeves | Doran | Jeeves | – | ||||
| Jenkins | Divots | Doran | Golf | – | |||||
| Meet Mr Mulliner | Jenkins | Meet Mr Mulliner | Doubleday, Doran | Mr. Mulliner | – | ||||
| Mr Mulliner Speaking | Jenkins | Mr Mulliner Speaking | Doubleday, Doran | Mr. Mulliner | – | ||||
| Very Good, Jeeves | Jenkins | Very Good, Jeeves | Doubleday, Doran | Jeeves | – | ||||
| Mulliner Nights | Jenkins | Mulliner Nights | Doubleday, Doran | Mr. Mulliner | – | ||||
| Blandings Castle and Elsewhere | Jenkins | Blandings Castle | Doubleday, Doran | Blandings Castle and Mr. Mulliner | – | ||||
| Young Men in Spats | Jenkins | Young Men in Spats | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | ||||
| Lord Emsworth and Others | Jenkins | Crime Wave at Blandings | Doubleday, Doran | Blandings Castle, Golf, Ukridge | – | ||||
| Eggs, Beans and Crumpets | Jenkins | Eggs, Beans and Crumpets | Doubleday, Doran | – | – | ||||
| Nothing Serious | Jenkins | Nothing Serious | Doubleday, Doran | Blandings Castle, Golf, Ukridge | – | ||||
| Jenkins | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves, Ukridge, Mr. Mulliner | – | ||||||
| Plum Pie | Jenkins | Plum Pie | Simon & Schuster | Jeeves, Blandings, Ukridge, Mr. Mulliner | Short stories, poems, essay | ||||
| – | – | – | Seabury Press | – | – | ||||
| A Man of Means | Porpoise Books | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Plum Stones | Galahad Books | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere | Porpoise Books | – | – | – | School | – | |||
| – | – | – | Enter Jeeves | 1997 | Dover Publications | Jeeves, Reggie Pepper | Early Jeeves stories and all Reggie Pepper stories | ||
| Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means | Everyman Books | Kid Brady Stories and A Man of Means | The Overlook Press | Kid Brady | – |
See main article: P. G. Wodehouse short stories bibliography.
Wodehouse wrote more than 300 short stories. Many of these stories were originally published in magazines and subsequently published in short story collections. Wodehouse also contributed other works to periodicals such as articles and poems, and some of Wodehouse's novels were originally serialised in magazines as well.
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| After the Show | Unknown | – | – | By Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playhouse Theatre, New York | – | – | By Wodehouse and John Stapleton; adaptation of Wodehouse's novel A Gentleman of Leisure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McVicker's Theater, Chicago | – | – | By Wodehouse and John Stapleton; revival of A Gentleman of Leisure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brother Alfred | Savoy Theatre, London | – | – | By Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook; adaptation of Wodehouse's short story "Rallying Round Old George" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nuts and Wine | Empire Theatre, London | – | – | By Wodehouse and C.H. Bovill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Have a Heart | Liberty Theatre, New York | New York: T.B. Harms | By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; music by Jerome Kern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oh Boy! | Princess Theatre, New York | New York: T.B. Harms | By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; revised for the UK as Oh Joy! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leave It to Jane | Longacre Theatre, New York | New York: T.B. Harms | By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; music by Jerome Kern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kitty Darlin | Teck Theatre, Buffalo, New York | New York and Boston: G. Schirmer | By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Amsterdam Theatre, New York | New York: T.B. Harms | By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miss 1917 | Century Theatre, New York | New York: T.B. Harms | By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oh, Lady! Lady!!]| Princess Theatre, New York| | | New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; music by Jerome Kern|-! scope="row" | See You Later| Academy of music, Baltimore, Maryland| | | New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton|-! scope="row" | | New Amsterdam Theatre, New York| | | New York and London: Chappell & Co| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; revised for the UK as Kissing Time|-! scope="row" | | Globe Theatre, New York| | –| –| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton|-! scope="row" | Oh, My Dear!| Princess Theatre, New York| | | New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton|-! scope="row" | | Lyric Theatre New York| | | New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton|-! scope="row" | Sally| New Amsterdam Theatre, New York| | | New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Clifford Grey, Buddy De Sylva and Anne Caldwell; music by Jerome Kern|-! scope="row" | | Adelphi Theatre, London| | | London : Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew| By Wodehouse and Fred Thompson|-! scope="row" | | Winter Garden Theatre, London| | | London and Sydney: Chappell; New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and George Grossmith; music by Jerome Kern|-! scope="row" | | Winter Garden Theatre, London| | | London and Sydney: Chappell; New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and George Grossmith; music by Jerome Kern|-! scope="row" | Sitting Pretty| Fulton Theatre, New York| | | New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; music by Jerome Kern|-! scope="row" | Hearts and Diamonds| Strand Theatre| | | London: Prowse| By Wodehouse and Laurie Wylie; adaptation of The Orlov by Biuno Granichstaedten and Ernst Marischka|-! scope="row" | | Henry Miller's Theatre, New York| | | New York: Brentano's| Adaptation of a play by Ferenc Molnár|-! scope="row" | | Imperial Theatre, New York| | | London and Sydney: Chappell; New York: T.B. Harms| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin|-! scope="row" | Her Cardboard Lover| Empire Theatre, New York| | –| –| By Wodehouse and Valerie Wyngate; music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin; based on Dans sa candeur naïve by Jacques Deval|-! scope="row" | Good Morning, Bill| Duke of York's Theatre, London| | | London: Methuen| Adapted from a play by Ladislaus Fodor|-! scope="row" | | Lyric Theatre, New York| | | London: Chappell| By Wodehouse and Clifford Grey; adaptation of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas|-! scope="row" | | New Theatre, London| | | London: Samuel French| By Wodehouse and Ian Hay; adaptation of Wodehouse's novel A Damsel in Distress|-! scope="row" | Baa, Baa, Black Sheep| New Theatre, London| | | London: Samuel French| By Wodehouse and Ian Hay|-! scope="row" | Candle-light| Empire Theatre, New York| | | London and New York: Samuel French| Adapted from a play by Siegfried Geyer|-! scope="row" | Leave It to Psmith| Shaftesbury Theatre, London| | | London: Samuel French| By Wodehouse and Ian Hay; adaptation of Wodehouse's novel Leave It to Psmith|-! scope="row" | Who's Who| Duke of York's Theatre, London| | –| –| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; adaptation of Wodehouse's novel If I Were You|-! scope="row" | Anything Goes| Alvin Theatre| | | New York: Samuel French| By Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; lyrics and music by Cole Porter|-! scope="row" | | Saville Theatre, London| | –| –| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; adaptation of Wodehouse's novel Hot Water|-! scope="row" | Arthur| –| –| –| –| Adapted in 1947 from Jemand by Ferenc Molnár; not produced|-! scope="row" | Game of Hearts| –| –| –| –| Adapted in 1947 from a play by Ferenc Molnár; not produced|-! scope="row" | Don't Listen, Ladies| St James's Theatre, London| | –| –| By Wodehouse (as Stephen Powys) and Guy Bolton; adapted from a play by Sacha Guitry|-! scope="row" | Nothing Serious| –| | –| –| No major productions, but produced in the provinces by touring companies|-! scope="row" | Phipps| –| –| –| –| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton in 1951; not produced|-! scope="row" | Come On, Jeeves| –| –| | London: Evans| By Wodehouse and Guy Bolton; no major productions, but produced in the provinces by touring companies|-! scope="row" | Oh, Clarence!| Opera House, Manchester; later Lyric Theatre, London and on tour| | | London: English Theatre Guild| Adapted by John Chapman from Blandings Castle stories|}Films
Autobiographies and miscellanyThe following is a collection of published autobiographical and miscellaneous work. There are transcripts available of the five broadcasts he made, available online, including through the PG Wodehouse Society (UK).
References and sourcesSources
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