John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright whose literary career spanned the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian eras.
In addition to his prolific literary status, Galsworthy was also a renowned social activist. He was an outspoken advocate for the women's suffrage movement, prison reform and animal rights. Galsworthy was the president of PEN, an organization that sought to promote international cooperation through literature.
John Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga."
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright, born at Coombe.
Galsworthy was educated at Harrow and at Oxford and in 1890 was called to the bar.
Between 1897 and 1901 Galsworthy published four books under the pseudonym John Sinjohn. The first novel published under his own name came out in 1904.
In 1906 Galsworthy published The Man of Property, the first part of what was to become The Forsyte Saga
In this year too his first play, The Silver Box, was produced.
Three books, Fine Tales, In Chancery, and To Let, completed the Forsyte Saga proper, although Galsworthy later wrote three novels, published together as A Modern Comedy, that continued the series.
Galsworthy was offered, but refused, a Knight hood after World War I. He later accepted the Order of Merit.
Other notable plays of Galsworthy's are Strife, Justice, and Escape. He was given the Nobel prize for literature in 1932.
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