Copyright © 2011 by the Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate
Introduction, selection, and other editorial matter copyright © 2011 by Sophie Ratcliffe
First American edition 2012
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881–1975.
A life in letters / P. G. Wodehouse ; edited by Sophie Ratcliffe. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Previously published: London : Hutchinson, 2011.
“The definitive edition of the letters-many previously unpublished . . . . Wodehouse corresponded with relatives, friends, and some of the greatest figures of the twentieth century: Agatha Christie, Ira Gershwin, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The letters are arranged chronologically with intersecting sections of biography written by Sophie Ratcliffe”—Publisher’s note.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-393-08899-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-393-08987-5 (e-book)
1. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975—Correspondence. 2. Novelists,
English—20th century—Biography. 3. Novelists, English—20th century—Correspondence.
I. Ratcliffe, Sophie, 1975– II. Title.
PR6045.O53Z48 2012
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