George Bernard Shaw wrote works.
George Bernard Shaw . He wrote more than sixty plays , including major works such as Man and Superman ( 1903 ) , Pygmalion ( 1913 ) and Saint Joan ( 1923 ) . He was the first person to be awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award , receiving the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and sharing the 1938 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film version of Pygmalion . Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success , 1894 's Arms and the Man . Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw , named after a Greek mythological figure .