John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy was born in 1867, the son of a wealthy solicitor, and intended himself for the bar, to which he was called in 1890 and which he hardly practised. He had a long affair with his cousin's wife, whom he married in 1905 after the divorce. He campaigned for prison reform, against theatrical censorship and for the protection of animals, refused a knighthood and received the Nobel Prize in 1932. He died the following year, at sixty-five.

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• NovelThe Forsyte SagaJohn Galsworthy · 1906LiteraturePublic domain