Galsworthy, John, Sir

Plays: Second Series Galsworthy, John, Sir

Publisher Marketing: Plays: Second Series by John Galsworthy Contributor Bio:  Galsworthy, John, Sir John Galsworthy was a Nobel-Prize (1932) winning English dramatist, novelist, and poet born to an upper-middle class family in Surrey, England. He attended Harrow and trained as a barrister at New College, Oxford. Although called to the bar in 1890, rather than practise law, Galsworthy travelled extensively and began to write. It was as a playwright Galsworthy had his first success. His plays--like his most famous work, the series of novels comprising The Forsyte Saga--dealt primarily with class and the social issues of the day, and he was especially harsh on the class from which he himself came.