Person    | Male  Born 14/8/1867  Died 31/1/1933

John Galsworthy

Categories: Literature, Theatre

Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.

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John Galsworthy

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