Bob's favorite background reading for most anything, including PGW, is the Everyman, Oct. 15, 2002, edition of George Orwell’s “Essays”
Other books, in no particular order, include:
Davis, Lee, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
James H Heineman, Inc, New York, 1993
Green, Benny, P G Wodehouse: A Literary Biography
Pavilion Books, London, 1981
Taves, Brian, P G Wodehouse and Hollywood
McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, NC, 2006
Mount, Ferdinand, Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes
Bloomsbury; Later printing edition (2008)
Graves, Robert and Hodge, Alan, The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (April 2001)
Taylor, D. J., Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 5, 2010)
Luke, Michael, David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years
Trafalgar Square (April 11, 1991)
Green, Martin Burgess, Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918
Axios Press (September 18, 2008)
Some web sites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Annan,_Baron_Annan
wrote a number of relevant books of which Bob has read only two: Our Age and The Dons
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