Although Wodehouse praised the book when it was published, he found its author – whom he called "a certain learned Usborne" – too inclined to bring in biographical details rather than concentrating on the works as agreed. He was horrified at a proposed chapter dealing with his in 1941, and it did not appear in the finished book. When he received Usborne's draft he removed and destroyed a 20,000-word chapter on the subject. Even so far as study of his books was concerned, he found it unsettling to have his fiction subjected to extensive critical analysis. He thought Usborne paid too much attention to the school stories from Wodehouse's very early career, when, in his words, "I was hardly articulate".