George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist. - The Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 was awarded to George Bernard Shaw. Famous Plays of G.B. Shaw are: - Pygmalion, - Mrs. Warren's Profession, - St. Joan of Arc - Arms and the Man, - Heartbreak House, - Caesar and Cleopatra, - Man and Superman, - The Doctor's Dilemma etc. [Source: An ABC of English Literature Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopædia Britannica]