Word: pelham
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...affectionate perspective of David Jasen's biography, revised for the author's centennial, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse emerges as one of the century's greatest entertainment industries. Beginning with The Pothunters in 1902, he wrote over 70 novels, more than 300 short stories, 18 plays, plus the lyrics or books of 33 musicals with such partners as Jerome Kern and George Gershwin...
Wodehouse's childhood was a model of bland British neglect- parents absent ed in Hong Kong where father served as a magistrate while young Pelham was stashed in schools back in England. When it came time for Oxford, there was no money. The aspiring author had to clerk in a bank. When he was quarantined with mumps, the stay-at-home knocked out 19 stories in three weeks: he had taken refuge in comic art. It was to be his true home from then...