(四川)四川省某中学2014-2015学年高中英语 Unit 4 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw素材 新人教版选修8.docVIP

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -Biography Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender of womens rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, where he grew up in something close to genteel poverty. I am a typical Irishman; my family came from Yorkshire, Shaw once said. His father, George Carr Shaw, was in the wholesale grain trade. Lucinda Elisabeth (Gurly) S