George
Bernard Shaw was born July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were George Carr Shaw (1815-1885), a retired civil
servant, and 'Bessie' Lucinda Elizabeth nee Gurly (1830-1913), amateur mezzo soprano singer.He had
two older sisters,Lucinda Frances and Elinor Agnes.
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His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. In 1876 he moved to London, where he wrote regularly but struggled financially but his mother essentially supported him while he spent time in the British Museum reading room, working on his first novels..In London, he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties.Unfortunately, despite the time he spent writing them, his novels were dismal failures, widely rejected by publishers. Shaw soon turned his attention to politics and the activities of the British intelligentsia and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society.
His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. In 1876 he moved to London, where he wrote regularly but struggled financially but his mother essentially supported him while he spent time in the British Museum reading room, working on his first novels..In London, he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties.Unfortunately, despite the time he spent writing them, his novels were dismal failures, widely rejected by publishers. Shaw soon turned his attention to politics and the activities of the British intelligentsia and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society.
The year after he joined the Fabian
Society, Shaw landed some writing work in the form of book reviews and art,
music and theater criticism, and in 1895 he was brought aboard the Saturday Review as its theater
critic. His other novels are Cashel Byron's Profession (1882), An Unsocial Socialist (1887),The Irrational Knot (1880),
and Love Among the Artists (1881).
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His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant(1898). Among these, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce.
Shaw
won an Academy Award for the screenplay. Since he had won the 1925 Nobel Prize
in Literature, his Oscar win made him the only person to receive both awards.Pygmalion went on to further
fame when it was adapted into a musical and became a hit, first on the Broadway
stage (1956) with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, and later on the screen
(1964) with Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.
Shaw died in 1950 at age 94.It is a great loss
in the history of English literature.
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