George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
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Date of birth | 26 July 1856 Dublin George Bernard Shaw | ||||
Date of death | 2 November 1950 Ayot St Lawrence | ||||
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English: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856–2 November 1950) was a world-renowned Irish author. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. Having rejected formal schooling (toward which he had an enduring antipathy), he educated himself by independent study in the reading room of the British Museum; he also began his career there by writing novels for which he could not find a publisher. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
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Shaw in 1894, published in Life magazine
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George Bernard Shaw
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Shaw in 1913, by Alvin Langdon Coburn
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Shaw in 1914, published in Life magazine
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Shaw in 1925, from Nobel Foundation
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Shaw in 1934