Sruoga was born on 12 March 1886 in the village of Baibokai, near modern-day Panevėžys, then the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire.
During the First World War, Sruoga graduated from a military engineering school[2] and was heavily injured near Warsaw.
[1] In independent Lithuania, Sruoga served in the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 1940 to 1941 he worked at "food industries in the People's Commissariat", and from 1944 onwards at the "Social Development Department of the Executive Committee of the City of Kaunas".
Juozas Sruoga's daughter Jolita also continued the task, eventually gifting a secret manuscript of the novel Forest of the Gods to the Maironis Lithuanian literature museum.