Skeleton in your closet

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society and he became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal political rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthful lifestyles. Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They made their home on Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. Shaw died there, at age 94 from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling from a ladder. He is the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature(1925) and an Oscar (1938).

The reason why I choose George Bernard Shaw because he was a superstar playwright and tart-tongued literary personality of the early 20th century. Shaw won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. He remains the only person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize. George Bernard Shaw is still better known for his famously large ego and sometimes prickly personality.