Bernard Shaw

Top 10 facts about George Bernard Shaw

The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw was born 160 years ago on July 26, 1856. 1. He hated the name George and always preferred to be called simply Bernard Shaw. 2. He is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize (for Literature in 1925) and an Oscar (for the screenplay of his play Pygmalion in 1938). 3. Born in Dublin...