P.G. Wodehouse
A Biography

The best parts of this book are the excerpts of letters. Wodehouse is wonderful whenever he touches a word. I do want to read another biography now. This is not a waste of time but perhaps not entirely reliable. Still time with Wodehouse is always worthwhile.......more

I have enjoyed reading P.G. Wodehouse in the last few years so I thought getting to know him might be fun. I'm so glad I did because this book really humanized him, highlighted his humor, and addressed his faults with grace. The next time I pick up a Jeeves or Psmith book I think I will enjoy it eve......more

This is a very odd bit of Wodehouseana, written by a friend of Wodehouse's adopted daughter, Leonora. Mrs. Donaldson confesses not to have come around to reading Plum's output with any sense of enjoyment until her seventies: this she attributes to the "fact" that Wodehouse's humor is not suited to t......more

A disappointingly dull account of the life of one of my favourite writers. There is very little in this biography on Wodehouse's early life and motivations, beyond the bare bones that you could pick up on Wikipedia. More than half of the book is taken up with the few short months that Wodehouse spen......more

Frederick Davidson's narration made it worth the listen even if the material had been miserable, which it definitely was not. A lifetime of writing seems to go by all too quickly, no matter what one may have thought of his POW status.......more