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Galsworthy, John
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From: Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
Date: 19990101
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Galsworthy, John (1867–1933)
British novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Literature, having been appointed to the OM in 1929. The son of a prosperous lawyer, Galsworthy was born in Coombe, Surrey, educated at Harrow, and took a degree in law at New College, Oxford (1889). Called to the bar in 1890, he specialized in marine jurisprudence. To gain experience he travelled (1893) to the Far East on a merchant ship, encountering Joseph Conrad , who later became his friend.Galsworthy's first novels and stories were published under the pseudonym John ...
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