Facts about John Galsworthy

Galsworthy (1867-1933)

• 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.