George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was born on 26 July 1856 in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. He went to London in 1876, began by writing novels, then became in the 1880s and 1890s one of the city's leading music and drama critics. A prominent member of the Fabian Society, he wrote many of its pamphlets. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925, he refused the money, which was used to found an Anglo-Swedish body for translation. He died on 2 November 1950 at Ayot St Lawrence, in Hertfordshire, aged ninety-four.

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• TheatrePygmalionGeorge Bernard Shaw · 1912Literature