John Galsworthy was a famous English novelist and playwright of the early 20th century who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. He wrote 20 novels, 27 plays, and over 170 short stories and other works, portraying the British upper middle class and providing social satire. Key sources of information about his life and works include his author page on silksoundbooks.com, Wikipedia, and the Macau University of Science and Technology.