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John Galsworthy

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The Resume

    (August 14, 1867-January 31, 1933)
    Born in Kingston Hill, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
    Novelist and playwright
    Best known for writing the three-volume Forsyte Saga (1906-21)
    Wrote the plays 'The Silver Box' (1906), 'Strife' (1909) and 'The Skin Game' (1920)
    Won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1932)

Why he might be annoying:

    As one biographer noted, 'John Galsworthy spent his childhood in the very sort of of upper-middle class family he would one day skewer in his novels.'
    Until his father died, he published his work under a pseudonym.
    He had a secret affair with his cousin's wife, and married her the day after her divorce became final.
    Virginia Woolf dismissed him as irrelevant (1919).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He decided on literature as a career after a chance meeting with Joseph Conrad during a South Seas voyage (1893).
    During World War I, he worked as an orderly in a hospital in France and offered the family home as a rest house for wounded soldiers.
    He was a co-founder and first president of the literary association PEN International, and donated his Nobel Prize money to fund it.
    He experienced a resurgence of popularity when 'The Forsyte Saga' aired as a BBC mini-series (1967) and as the first offering on Masterpiece Theatre (1971).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying