George Bernard Shaw
G. Bernard Shaw (he hated the "George" and never used it, either personally or professionally) was born in 1856 in Dublin, in a lower-middle class family of Scottish-Protestant ancestry.
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George Bernard Shaw
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty"
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1925/

George Bernard Shaw
Shaw was a very witty satirist who loved to present people with the absurdity of their conventional way of thinking
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