The Art of Fiction No. 60
“The thing to do is to say to yourself, ‘Which are my big scenes?’ and then get every drop of juice out of them.”
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was a British author and humorist known for a regular cast of upper-crust, Edwardian characters and the manservant Jeeves, a model for many fictional butlers to come. A prolific writer, Wodehouse wrote ninety books, twenty film scripts, and more than thirty plays and musicals throughout his life. Wodehouse spent much of World War II interned in Berlin by the Nazis, making several audio broadcasts to Britain. After the war, Wodehouse moved to the United States and died on Long Island in 1975.