PG Wodehouse’s biographer joins an annual conference to celebrate the US passion for the most English of comic writersYou might expect that the society devoted to the memory of PG Wodehouse and his works would celebrate its biennial “international conference” somewhere in Shropshire,deep in Wodehouse country, perhaps a bread roll’s throw from Blandings Castle. But the weird truth about the author of the Jeeves & Wooster stories is that he is as much honoured – and better remembered – in America than in Britain.
Which is one reason why the 18th conference of the Wodehouse Society was held final week in Seattle, or world headquarters of Amazon,Starbucks, Microsoft and Boeing, and grunge capital of the American music business and domestic of the late Kurt Cobain.
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Source: theguardian.com