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''Over Seventy'' is an
autobiographical An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...
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P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeve ...
, including a collection of articles originally from ''Punch'' magazine. It was first published in the United States on 3 May 1956McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) ''P. G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist''. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 91-92. by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title ''America, I Like You'', and in the United Kingdom, in a considerably expanded form, on October 11, 1957, by Herbert Jenkins, London, with the ''Over Seventy'' title and the subtitle ''An Autobiography with Digressions''. Much of the writing describes Wodehouse's feelings concerning the United States, his adopted homeland, with the journalism and stories inserted in context.


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The Russian Wodehouse Society's page
Books by P. G. Wodehouse 1956 non-fiction books Herbert Jenkins books British autobiographies {{lit-bio-book-stub