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P.G. Wodehouse was born in Surrey in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. While working in the London office of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he began to publish stories and articles. These were so well received that after two years he decided to leave the bank and become a full-time writer. From 1906 he was a columnist on The Globe. In 1909 he settled in America where he became well-known through serializations of his work in The Saturday Evening Post. In 1914 he married Ethel Rowley. His first popular successes were school stories. From these the characters of Psmith and Ukridge evolved. At the same time, Wodehouse was writing song-lyrics, plays and musicals, collaborating with Jerome Kern, George Grossmith and Guy Bolton, among others. But his real fame developed between the wars with the invention of two fictional worlds based on Blandings Castle and the Jeeves-Wooster menage. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years he published over ninety books. Wodehouse spent much of his life on Long Island, becoming an American citizen in 1955. He was knighted in 1975, and died in the same year at the age of 93
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