Jeeves and the king of clubs (Broché)

Biographie de Ben Schott

Ben Schott is the author of Schott's Original Miscellany and its four sequels, which have been translated into twenty-one languages ; six volumes of the yearbook Schott's Almanac, and Schottenfreude. He divides his time between London and New York. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as "Plum") wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.
Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories indude gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge ; Psmith, the elegant socialist ; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenharn, better known as Uncle Fred ; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler's Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.
In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for "having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world". He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine's Day.