This Day in the Arts: November 2
1950:
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw dies at age 94. Known as a comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925.
1961:
Humorist and cartoonist James Thurber, known mainly for his contributions to the New Yorker magazine, dies in New York City. Today, the annual Thurber Prize honors examples of American humor.
