John Osborne—Life and Works

I. LIFEBirth, Parentage, and SchoolingThe son of Thomas Godfrey Osborne, a commercial artist, and Nellie Beatrice, a bar-maid, John Osborne was born in 1929 in a London suburb. Thomas Godfrey Osborne died when the boy John was hardly twelve and when World War II was gaining still greater momentum. The boy spent the remaining years of the war with his mother in London and was thereafter sent to