P. G. Wodehouse

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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was a British-American author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

In 1934, Wodehouse moved to France for tax reasons. In 1940, he was taken prisoner by the Germans and interned for nearly a year. After his release, he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war. The talks were comic and apolitical, but his broadcasting over enemy radio prompted anger and strident controversy in Britain, and a threat of prosecution. Wodehouse never returned to England. From 1947 until his death, he lived in the US, taking dual British-American citizenship in 1955.

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