This profile celebrates the life and works of George Bernard Shaw. All of the works listed here are in the public domain. This profile is maintained by the Wattpad Ambassadors.



George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright (who held both British and Irish citizenship), critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture, and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. 



He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1903), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). By the early twentieth century, he wrote a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra.



He was the first person to be awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award, receiving the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and sharing the 1938 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film version of Pygmalion.