Interesting facts about George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw was a vegetarian yet a staunch vivisectionist [using animals for research purposes]
- Shaw is perhaps the only recipient of both the Nobel Prize and the Academy Award.
- He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
- Shaw won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion [Screen Name of film – My Fair Lady] in the year 1938.
- Shaw was very fond of riding motorcycles
- Shaw‘s prefaces to his plays were extremely lengthy, where he expounded his political views. At times the preface was much longer than the play itself.
- Shaw’s picture appeared on the cover of the Beatles’ Album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Shaw was active till the end and died at the age of 94 due to injuries he sustained after falling off a ladder in his garden.
- Shaw was not buried but cremated and his ashes scattered all over his estate.
