October 15, 1881–February 14, 1975

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English author and playwright and one of the premier humorists of the twentieth century.

Hilaire Belloc regarded him as the best writer of English of their time: “His object is comedy in the most modern sense of that word: that is, his object is to present the laughable, and he does this with such mastery and skill that he nearly always approaches, and often reaches, perfection.”

Best known for his masterpieces, the Jeeves & Wooster and the Blandings Castle stories, Wodehouse devoted hours of plotting and planning and writing and re-writing to all of his books. Each one confirms what Evelyn Waugh wrote in 1961: “Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.”