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George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw

[shaw]
–noun
1. Anna Howard, 1847–1919, U.S. physician, reformer, and suffragist, born in England.
2. Artie (Arthur Arshawsky), 1910–2004, U.S. clarinetist and bandleader.
3. George Bernard, 1856–1950, Irish dramatist, critic, and novelist: Nobel prize 1925.
4. Henry Wheeler. Billings, Josh.
5. Irwin, 1913–84, U.S. dramatist and author.
6. Richard Norman, 1831–1912, English architect, born in Scotland.
7. Thomas Edward. Lawrence, Thomas Edward.
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Shaw, George Bernard 1856-1950.  
Irish-born British playwright, essayist, and critic. A member of the Fabian Society, a group of writers committed to promoting socialism, he wrote plays of iconoclastic social criticism, including Arms and the Man (1894), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). He won the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature.
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Shaw, George Bernard (G. B. S.)

An Irish author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; he spent most of his career in England. A playwright, critic, and social reformer, Shaw was known for his outspokenness and barbed humor. His many plays include Pygmalion, Androcles and the Lion, Man and Superman, and Saint Joan.

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