The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Shaw, George Bernard
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1856–1950
Irish-born British playwright, essayist, and critic. A founder 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.
