George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin. He was a son of a civil servant. He had a irregular education. After working in an estate agent's office he moved to London in 1876. There he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic. He also became a prominent member of the Fabian Society.
He started his literary career as a novelist and as a advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen. So he decided to write plays to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas are called: Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny.
Other important plays by Shaw are: Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), Androcles and the Lion (1912), Major Barbara (1905), The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), Candida (1898), Pygmalion (1912).
George Bernard Shaw has got the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1925/shaw-bio.html
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