Wodehouse was as called "Plum" by most family and friends. His mother, Eleanor Wodehouse . His father, Henry Ernest Wodehouse (1845–1929), was a British judge in Hong Kong. The Wodehouse family had been settled in Norfolk . When he was just three years old, Wodehouse was brought to England and placed in the care of a nanny. He attended various boarding schools and, between the ages of three and 15 years, saw his parents for barely six months in total.

He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1975 New Year Honours, six weeks before his death at the age of 93. The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, given annually for the finest example of comic writing in the UK, was established and named in his honour in 2000. In 1914, Wodehouse married Ethel Wayman and gained a stepdaughter called Leonora.

The Man Upstairs (1914)  The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922) Plum Pie (1966) Sunset at Blandings (unfinished written during death) Laughing Gas (1936) Mulliner Nights (1933) Uncle Dynamite (1948) The Girl in Blue (1970) Bachelors Anonymous (1973) The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)