Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

Home 

George Bernard Shaw

Nationality: Irish
Date of birth: 1856
Place of birth: Dublin
Date of death: 1950
Category: writer, art critic

Identity:

George Bernard Shaw was a dramatist, essayist, critic and socialist.

Life:

During the 1880s, Shaw wrote music criticism for the Pall Mall Gazette, the Star and from 1895, dramatic critic of the Saturday Review.

Bibliography:

Dictionary of National Biography, online edition (accessed September 2004).