George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. He left Ireland when he was twenty years old and spent the rest of his life in London.
A Fabian, Shaw was an active socialist and a vegetarian. He became a music and drama critic and his ascerbic wit was much in evidence.
The author of more than forty plays, he was also a witty speaker and a writer of letters. His plays have retained an enormous popularity and are much admired even into the Twenty First Century. Shaw was regarded as the Voltaire of his time.
Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Shaw's complete works appeared in thirty-six volumes between 1930 and 1950, the year of his death.
Some works by Shaw:
- Plays Pleasant
- Man and Superman
- Heartbreak House
- Saint Joan
- Back to Methuselah
- Arms and the Man
- Androcles and the Lion
- Pygmalion