Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for comic literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.

A. Milne, Stephen King, W. Somerset Maugham, P. G. Wodehouse, Joyce Carol Oates, Theodore Sturgeon and Phyllis Diller.

He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

In fiction, some of the best-known names are J. M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse.

( P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster ; Tibby, in E. M. Forster's Howards End, is also a Magdalen undergraduate, as is Bridey in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Other globally well-known British novelists include George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming, Walter Scott, Agatha Christie, J. M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Helen Fielding, Arthur C. Clarke, Alan Moore, Ian McEwan, Anthony Burgess, Evelyn Waugh, William Golding, Salman Rushdie, Douglas Adams, P. G. Wodehouse, Martin Amis, Anthony Trollope, Beatrix Potter, A.

Fry, Walter Goodman, E. Nesbit, W. W. Jacobs, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Morrison, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georges Simenon, Edgar Wallace, Max Beerbohm, P. G. Wodehouse, Dornford Yates and even Winston Churchill.

" By the Way " was originally a column in the Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces ; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903 and editor from August 1904 to May 1909, during which time he was assisted by Herbert Westbrook.

Wodehouse against charges of being a Nazi sympathiser, a defence based on Wodehouse's lack of interest in and ignorance of politics.

* 1881 – P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist ( d. 1975 )

* Psmith, a P. G. Wodehouse character

P. G. Wodehouse published his first collection of comical stories about butler Jeeves in 1917.

And now the proclamation of Pretorius was followed by protests on the part of the British high commissioner, Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, as well as on the part of the consul-general for Portugal in South Africa.

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** P. G. Wodehouse, English-born writer ( d. 1975 )

Rosie M. Banks is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a romance novelist and the wife of Bingo Little.

In the early years of the 20th century, translations of popular late-19th century continental operettas were joined by the " Princess Theatre " shows of the 1910s by writers such as P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton and Harry B. Smith.

* Joan of Arc (" You Can't Keep a Good Girl Down ")-Sally of the Alley and Foundlings ( lyrics by Grey & Wodehouse )

Wodehouse, from 1994 to 1999, as Rumpole in Rumpole: The Splendours and Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack, as Dr. Alexandre Manette in A Tale of Two Cities, as ' Father ' in Peter Tinniswood's Winston series, and also as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret in several series beginning in 1976.

Three of the stories in the collection — the title story, " Ordeal by Golf " and " The Long Hole "— were filmed in 1924 as part of a series of six films of Wodehouse golf stories ; Peter Haddon played Cuthbert in the title story.

The phrase " naff off " was used euphemistically in place of " fuck off " along with the intensifier " naffing " in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse ( 1959 ).

Script-writers included John Albery, John Antrobus, John Betjeman, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Richard Ingrams, Lyndon Irving, Gerald Kaufman, Frank Muir, David Nobbs, Denis Norden, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan, and Keith Waterhouse.

Southern Television's production for ITV was written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, and starred Jon Pertwee as Worzel, with Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally, a life-size fairground doll and Worzel's femme fatale.

* In a 27 December 1993 review in The Independent, critic Paul Taylor favorably described a stage adaptation written from Mrs. Pooter's point of view: " Ten years back, Keith Waterhouse hit on the excellent idea of ' ghosting ' Mrs Pooter's Diary to give her account of the same period.

Wain was often referred to as one of the " Angry Young Men ", a term applied to 1950s writers such as John Braine, John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe and Keith Waterhouse, radicals who opposed the British establishment and conservative elements of society at that time.

His appearances on the London stage include Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse and Ben Elton ´ s play, Gasping.

Keith Spencer Waterhouse CBE ( 6 February 1929 – 4 September 2009 ) was a British novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series.

Keith Waterhouse was born in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

* Keith Waterhouse in conversation ( BBC TV 1985 )

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A new columnist, writer Keith Waterhouse, took over Connor's place in the newspaper, but not his byline.

An early resident was Keith Waterhouse, who wrote about his childhood exploits as the only member of the Middleton Hiking Club, in his book, City Lights.

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The first of their projects, The Card, based on Arnold Bennett's novel, with book by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, ran in London's West End with Jim Dale and Millicent Martin in the starring roles.

* 1973: Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduardo De Filippo, adapted by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

* 1990 – Man of the Moment by Alan Ayckbourn and Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse

* The Book Of Useless Information ( with Keith Waterhouse, 2002, John Blake Publishing, ISBN 1-903402-79-4 )-co-written with Keith Waterhouse, this " stocking filler " book is a collection of " useless " facts, described on the cover as " all you never needed to know and didn't need to ask.