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Also Known As SIr Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Born October 15, 1881 • Guildford • England
Died February 14, 1975 (aged 93) • Southampton • New York
Notable Works “Much Obliged, Jeeves” • “The Black Crook”

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P.G. Wodehouse sits at a desk with a typewriter, holding a pipe and looking at papers, in his Paris home in 1945.
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