Biographical notes and Bibliographies

We have compiled brief biographical notes and bibliographical checklists for Georgette Heyer, J. B. Priestley, Nevil Shute, Howard Spring, Dennis Wheatley, P. G. Wodehouse and Dornford Yates. Some are more comprehensive than others.

Bibliography is too technical a term for the checklists that follow each biographical note and certainly none is in any way intended to be the ultimate in bibliographies - they are provided as a guide and for amusement. We would be pleased to correct errors that are pointed out to us but please include the source of your information - it may be something that we have already found to be in error.

(Note: Over the passage of time this is something that happens - an error occurs, even something as simple as a spelling mistake, in a list that is referred to by others and those others then repeat the error until there are more occurrences of the mistake than there are of the original. The error then tends to be accepted as the correct entry.)

We would also be pleased if those who copy our work would at least acknowledge their source, especially those who contribute to wikipedia.

Georgette Heyer
J. B. Priestley
Nevil Shute
Howard Spring
Dennis Wheatley
P. G. Wodehouse
Dornford Yates

Our grateful acknowledgement to the following sources:

Specific

    Teresa Chris: Georgette Heyer's Regency London
    Jane Aiken Hodge: The Private World of Georgette Heyer
    Vincent Brome: J. B. Priestley
    Ivor Brown: J. B. Priestley
    Julian Smith: Nevil Shute - A Biography
    Marion Howard Spring: Howard, Frontispiece and Memories and Gardens
    Benny Green: P. G. Wodehouse A Literary Biography
    Joseph Connolly: P. G. Wodehouse An Illustrated Biography
    Frances Donaldson: P. G. Wodehouse The Authorised Biography
    Frances Donaldson: Yours Plum The Letters of P. G. Wodehouse
    David A. Jasen: A Bibliography and Reader's Guide to the First Editions of P. G. Wodehouse
    Eileen MacIlvaine: P. G. Wodehouse A Comprehensive Bibliography
    Barry Phelps: P. G. Wodehouse Man and Myth
    Richard Usborne: Wodehouse at Work
    Charles Kiddle: A Guide to the First Editions of Edgar Wallace
    Lofts and Adley: The British Bibliography of Edgar Wallace
    Margaret Lane: Edgar Wallace The Biography of a Phenomenon
    A. J. Smithers: Dornford Yates - A Biography
    Richard Usborne: Clubland Heroes
    

.......and authors own autobiographies

General

    The Clique: Annual Register of Book Values 1989-99
    Dawsons: Book Auction Records 1967-94
    A. and C. Black: Who's Who 1930-98
    A. and C. Black: Who was Who 1897-1980
    Diamond Publishing: Book and Magazine Collector 1984-2008
    Joseph Connolly: Modern First Editions
    Richard Church: British Authors - A Twentieth Century Gallery
    E. O. Hoppe: Gods of Modern Grub Street
    Peter Parker: The Readers Companion to 20th Century Writers
    L. G. Pine: The Author's and Writer's Who's Who
    The Wordsworth Dictionary of Biography
    The Times Archives
    The Dictionary of National Biography

.......as well as the books by the relevant authors in our possession or which have passed through our hands.