John Peter Berger was an English painter, art critic, essayist, prose writer and a fiction writer. His fictional work on the alienation of the English urban life, sociological writings on the migrant workers who left behind isolated rural communities after they turned to the contemporary economic lifestyle and fictional work on European farmers who are now displaced economically and politically made him an intellectually stimulating writer as well as a politically controversial one. He started his artistic life by taking up painting, and his work started to be displayed all over London by 1940s. He then moved on to become an art teacher for a while, which gave him enough time and inspiration to become an art critic and he published many of his critical essays around the same time. But it was finally in the late 50s that he established himself as a fictional writer with his first novel A Painter of Our Time. This piece of work did not go down well with the political establishments but it raised the curiosity in the literary world. Berger went on to write more controversial and debatable novels and won Booker Prize award for one of his greatest works, G. One of Berger’s famous novel Ways of Seeing has been adapted as a television series by BBC. Berger was also a script writer and wrote many critically acclaimed movies.