THE LAST WORD

How Shaw Followed the Sun

In the garden of George Bernard Shaw’s Hertfordshire, England, home, the Irish playwright constructed a writing hut where he worked for the last two decades of his life (1856–1950). It was built on a turntable, Modern Mechanix magazine explained in 1929, “so when the morning sun shifts, he merely places his shoulder against the side of the hut and gives it a push so that the warming beams fall through his window at the correct angle.”