English writer and broadcaster Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse was BOTD in 1881. Born in Guildford, Surrey to an aristocratic family, he was sent to boarding school aged five while his parents moved to Hong Kong. He spent six years at Dulwich College, which he adored, retaining a lifelong association with the school. A downturn in the family’s fortune prevented him from attending Oxford Unversity, and he worked for a bank in London, writing and publishing comic stories in his spare time. He began collaborating with composer Jerome Kern on musical theatre songs, becoming hugely successful in London and New York. In 1916, he published the story Jeeves Takes Charge, the first of a series of narratives about Bertie Wooster, a hapless aristocrat whose social and romantic crises are smoothed over by his über-efficient valet Jeeves. By the 1920s, Wodehouse was one of the most popular and highly paid writers in England. After a brief, calamitous career in Hollywood, he moved to France for tax purposes. Taken prisoner by the Nazis during World War Two, he made a series of comic broadcasts on German radio about life as a prisoner-of-war. When broadcast in Britain, he was accused of being a Nazi collaborator. Though never charged with war crimes, he moved to the United States after the war and never returned to Britain. He married Ethel Wayman in 1914, who facilitated his writing career, remaining together until his death in 1975 aged 93. A prolific and highly disciplined writer, he produced over ninety books, forty plays, two hundred short stories and other writings, and remains one of the most popular writers in the English language. In his 2004 biography, Robert McCrum argued that Wodehouse repressed his youthful homosexuality following the downfall of Oscar Wilde, a writer with whom he was often compared. No evidence exists of Wodehouse having a sex life, though his work reflects a fondness for camp and a uniquely English brand of chaste bromance.