To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels
and story collections, and among his immortal characters are
Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a
pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees: Dorothy
Parker, John Updike, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Salman Rushdie, John le
Carre, and Seamus Heaney. Wodehouse had an extraordinary Broadway
career, working with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and even dared to
rewrite Cole Porter's Anything Goes for the London stage. Robert
McCrum's magisterial biography chronicles the achievements and
shadows of a gilded life. The ill-judged broadcasts from Berlin,
where Wodehouse was interned during World War II, produced a
violent backlash in England and tarred him, unfairly, as a Nazi
sympathizer. His long love affair with America was compromised by
endless acrimony with the IRS. This is the book all Wodehouse fans
have been waiting for; it eclipses all previous accounts of his
life. An Economist Best Book of 2004.
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