Biography
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic and political activist. Born in Dublin in 1856, he moved to London in the 1870s and became a leading dramatist of his generation, writing more than sixty plays.
Shaw adapted his 1913 play Pygmalion for the screen in 1938, sharing the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplays for Major Barbara (1941) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). His work Pygmalion later formed the basis for the musical My Fair Lady. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and died in 1950.
