Over Seventy

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor & Entertainment

Wodehouse called Over Seventy (1957) an autobiography with digressions. It is a revised British version of America, I Like You, published in the US a year earlier. In loosely linked chapters he talks about his life and his career as a writer, his work for the theater, his long years in America, critics, fan mail and the craft of writing comic fiction, rarely staying serious for long.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”