Volume 28, Number 19 · December 3, 1981
Never-Never-Land
By V.S. Pritchett
P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography
by Benny Green
The Rutledge Press, 256 pp., $12.95
Among the writers who are celebrating the centenary of the birth of P.G. Wodehouse this year, Benny Green seems to me the most spirited and cogent to have appeared so far. He calls his book 'a literary biography,' which is exactly what is called for in dealing with a surprisingly scholarly master of comic folly, who in spite of poor eyesight seems to have done nothing but write all day, almost from the cradle until his ninetieth year. If he had another secret life behind his writing he was preoccupied enough to make it impenetrable. He was clearly a professional but one with the gift of imperturbable and deedy innocence.
Review, 2505 words
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