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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist who lived from the 26th of July 1856 to the 2nd of November 1950. He wrote more than sixty plays and became the leading dramatist of his generation. At his own insistence he was known simply as Bernard Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw wrote more than sixty plays, including Man and Superman in 1902, Pygmalion in 1912, and Saint Joan in 1923. His first financial success was Arms and the Man in 1894. Other major works include Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and Caesar and Cleopatra.
George Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1925. The citation praised his work as marked by both idealism and humanity. He accepted the award but rejected the monetary prize that went with it, saying his readers and audiences provided more than enough money for his needs.
George Bernard Shaw won an Academy Award for the screenplay of the 1938 film version of Pygmalion, produced by Gabriel Pascal at Pinewood Studios. He called the award an insult coming from such a source. He became the first person to hold both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
George Bernard Shaw was a socialist and the most prominent pamphleteer of the gradualist Fabian Society. He promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion. In his later years he expressed admiration for Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler.
George Bernard Shaw died at the age of ninety-four of renal failure caused by injuries from a fall while pruning a tree at his home, Shaw's Corner in Ayot St Lawrence. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on the 6th of November 1950. His ashes were mixed with those of his wife Charlotte and scattered in their garden.