His father was a rich lawyer, and he wanted his son to follow the career John studied law at Oxford, but he was more interested in literature than in law.
He came from a well-to-do bourgeois family. The writer was born at Coombe, Surrey, on August 14, 1867.
His mastery as a writer lies in his keen criticism of national prejudices, his exciting pints and a realistic observation of life and characters. His characters are mostly of the upper middle class and the aristocracy with which he was wholly familiar Galsworthy tried to revive the realistic traditions of his predecessors -"the brilliant school of English novelists". He is critical of injustice, tyranny and all the evils of life, but his criticism is not destructive: he himself was too much a member of the privileged classes to wish to rebuild the world he lived in. The author deals with contemporary social problems. His works give the most complete and critical picture of English bourgeois society at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a novelist, dramatist, short story writer and essayist taken together. John Galsworthy was one of the last representatives of Critical Realism in English literature.
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